does the new Delphi IDE (2009) come with some documentation ? (kind of like the MSDN with VS). where can you get it ? (want to have a look at it)
is the documentation good ?
i picked up a copy of Delphi in 21 days . is it good for beginners in Delphi ?
It's all available from the Embarcadero website here: http://docs.embarcadero.com/products/rad_studio/ in CHM (WinHelp) / PDF / HTML format. (I don't know whether it's any good or not.)
There is a public wiki which was started sometime back by Nick Hodges (the then product manager of Delphi). Not sure about the quality of contents though!
About the book: It is not exactly answer of your question but try grabbing Mastering Delphi by Marco Cantu. Its really the best book I have read on Delphi.
One cool thing about Delphi 2009 is that they load the summary tags written above each function in the hint you get when you mouse over your source. It's the same thing you'd get if you hit F1, but that saves a click and a wait.