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Originally Posted by cdoug
I am a new official and this will be my first year. I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions about books other than the rule book and case book that might be helpful. I was thinking about the Rules by Topic book, but was not sure if it would help me or not.
I've been reading on here since mid-January and have already learned more than I thought there was to learn.
Any advice is appreciated. Thanks in advance. 
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Chad,
You may want to get one until you become familiar with the other books.
"Rules by Topic" presents the same information found in the rule Book and Case Book. The information is simply listed in a different format.
17 Topics [2007-08]:- Court and equipment
- Players, subs, coaches
- Scoring
- Control
- Jump ball and held ball
- Free throw
- Throw-ins
- Clock and scorers/timers
- guarding
- Violations
- Classifications of fouls
- Contact fols
- Technical fouls
- Warnings and delays
- Ccorrectig errors
- Time-outs, halftime, and overtime
- Officials and their duties
and Signal Chart.