Fallout: New Vegas skill books

Unique (and/or Quest) books
These books and their locations are related to quests are unique or both. You can find a total of 3 Quest books in New Vegas.

Skill books
Reading a skill book permanently raises the corresponding skill by three points (four if you've taken the Comprehension perk). There are 4 books for each skill; you can find a total of 52 skill books in New Vegas. The skill books are the same as the books from Fallout 3 (with the exception of "The Wasteland Survival Guide," originally a reward from the completion of the associated Fallout 3 quest, which attributes to the newly added "Survival" skill).

Types

 * See That Lucky Old Sun for details on obtaining #5; there are only 4 Big Books of Science placed in the game world.

Skill magazines
Skill magazines temporarily raise the corresponding skill by ten points (twenty with Comprehension), but wear off after a while (longer with Retention). There are a total of 213 skill magazines in New Vegas. They are much more common than skill books. These skill magazines can only be used one skill-type at a time.

Skill magazines include:


 * Boxing Times (Unarmed)
 * Fixin' Things (Repair)
 * Future Weapons Today (Energy weapons)
 * Lad's Life (Survival)
 * ¡La Fantoma! (Sneak)
 * Locksmith's Reader (Lockpick)
 * Meeting People (Speech)
 * Milsurp Review (Guns)
 * Patriot's Cookbook (Explosives)
 * Programmer's Digest (Science)
 * Salesman Weekly (Barter)
 * Tales of Chivalrie (Melee)
 * Today's Physician (Medicine)
 * True Police Stories (Critical)