I have another question. I have access to the books listed below, however I know that not all of them are the lates and greatest and some are over 10 years old. So the question is are most of these books still a good idea to read. Or should I try and pick up the latest and greatest editions?

Vol1: Xlib Programming Manual for X11 (0937175277)
Vol2: Xlib Refrence Manual for X11 (0937175285)
Vol3: X window system Users Guide 'Motif edition' for OSF/Motif 1.2 (1565920155)
Vol4: X toolkit Intrinisics Programming Manual for X11 (093717534X)
Vol5: X toolkit Intrinisics Refrence Manual for X11 (0937175358)
Vol6B: Motif Reference Manual OSF/Motif 1.2 edition (1565920384)
Vol8: X window system Administrator's Guide for X11 & Release 5 (093717583)

When You Can't Find Your UNIX System Administrator (1565921046)
Managing projects with make (0937175900)
Usenet Handbook (1565921011)
Using & managing UUCP (1565921534)
Web Security & Commerce (1565922697)
Sendmail 2nd ed (1565922220)
Information architecture for the World Wide Web (1565922824)
Using Samba (1565924495)
C Language Algorithms for Digital Signal Processing (0131334069)
X Window system in a nutshell (1565920171)
Understanding DCE (1565920058)
DCE Security Programming (1565921348)
System Preformance and Tuning (0937175609)
Networking PCs with TCP/IP (1565921232)
TCP/IP Network administration 2nd ed (1565923227)
Termcap & Terminfo (0937175226)
Pratical Unix & Internet Security 2nd ed (1565921488)
Managing Internet & information services (1565920627)
Managing NFS & NIS (093717757)
Sed & Awk 2nd ed (1565922255)
Managing Mail lists (156592259X)
Web Performance & Tuning (1565923790)

sad to say,your wisdom in computer is half-baked.....
really,you miss out the best part........
Vol6,Vol6A and Vol7

gosh...did you really read all these?

Well like I said, I have access to the books; I have not read them yet, I would like to be able to say I have read most of them, but I can't.

afraid of being off topic
i would like to have those X references because lately i'm having problems in X coding,ya,i can search for X on the net but still better and prefer to have references in the traditional printed form.In my country , it's not easy to find those stuff ,even in the library, for the amatures.

Hopes you get early advice.....

Personally, I would *never* read most of those books. I have access to most of them, and when I need something in particular, I will pick up the appropriate book and consult it, but "read" them? Never.