I've started getting into technology books to read. I want to learn Hadoop, and I find that I enjoy just reading books rather than staring at a computer screen all the time. I've found two books:
I could go by Amazon reviews, but I was wondering what the community thought. If there's another book out there that I could read @ night, please let me know!
Somewhat more academic: Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce by Jimmy Lin and Chris Dyer
There's a free draft available
I'm currently reading "Hadoop: The Definitive Guide", and I definitely recommend it.
You can preview both books at google books:
http://books.google.com/books?id=bKPEwR-Pt6EC&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=8DV-EzeKigQC&lpg=PR2&pg=PR2#v=onepage&q&f=false
I do recommend Hadoop. The definitive Guide over Pro Hadoop, because the former also includes chapters on HBase and Pig, gives you more hands on examples and more explanations on the inner workings of Hadoop. I don't know Hadoop in action.
I would recommend you read the Yahoo tutorial first: http://developer.yahoo.com/hadoop/tutorial/
Once you've read that the next one on my list (as I've read it and loved it) is the Hadoop: The Definitive Guide.