TechEcho

I'm looking to buy some new programming books and I'm not sure to go just digital or hardcopy.General programming or ones specific for what stack you work with.

Desk Worthy to me is a good reference guide. Other good books that I don't need at arm's reach then are "shelf-worthy."Heres a couple Deskworthy ones: tyling with CSS by Charles Wyke-Smith - very quick reference to grab to get some CSS point clarified. The Visual Quickstart HTML guide is good too also for quick reference.

No desk would be complete without the C programmer's K&R C.

Clean code by Robert Martin if you're an application developer.

1.) The Pragmatic Programmer 2.) The Passionate Programmer 3.) 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know

Java Concurrency in Practice is an example of a nice go-to book if you're into that

Programming in Ruby;1.9 & 2.0. Dave Fowler et al aka Pickaxe book

Foundations of Multidimensional and Metric Data StructuresHanan Samet

What exactly is meant by desk-worthy?