• The Oughtred Society Slide Rule Reference Manual
  This up-to-date manual includes basic slide rule operating instructions, plus 100 color photos of slide rules, and much additional contemporary information. For a table of contents, sample pages, and complete ordering information, see either this Oughtred Society Web site or the Slide Rule Universe.
  
  
• K&E Salisbury Products Division Slide Rules
  A personal story by former K&E Production Manager and Plant Manager, Joseph L. Soper, including many of the details of the latter years of K+E's slide rule manufacturing and production. There are 102 photos shown within the 145 pages of this book.
  
  
• The United Kingdom Slide Rule Circle (UKSRC) has more than 200 reprints available at low cost. See the List of Reprints [Acrobat PDF document]. To order, Contact the UKSRC by e-mail at "peter.hopp@clara.co.uk". Or visit the UKSRC's Web site.
  
  
• The Oughtred Society maintains a recommended Books and Manuals list. [Acrobat PDF format]
  These items are available from slide rule dealers and on eBay from time to, and as scans for free download. See, variously, these sources:
  • Greg Scott at Ozmanor.
  • Sphere Research.
  • Ron Manley's Slide Rule Site.
  • Mike Konshak's International Slide Rule Museum .
  
  
• The German Slide Rule Group (Rechenschieber-Sammler-Treffen) maintains a recommended book list on their RST Web site.
  
  
• The Dutch Circle of Slide Rule Collectors maintains a recommended book list on their Circle Web site.
  
  

Rod Lovett maintains a searchable database of the slide rule literature published in:

• The Oughtred Society's Journal of the Oughtred Society.
• The United Kingdom Slide Rule Circle's Skid Stick and Slide Rule Gazette
• Proceedings of the International Meetings of Slide Rule Collectors,

Rod Lovett maintains a searchable database of eBay slide rules sales from October, 1999, to present.

The Oughtred Society Web site's Links Library has a comprehensive, up-to-date list of Web sites on slide rules and other calculating instruments.

• Walter Shawlee at the Slide Rule Universe.
• Dick Rose at Vintage Instruments.
• Paul Ross at The Slide Rule Trading Company.
• Rick Blankenhorn at The Gemmary.
• For more dealers and collectors who have rules for sale, visit the Links Library.

• Advanced features
• Care
• Cleaning
• Collecting
• Common types
• History
• How a slide rule works
• Instructions
• Less common types
• Scales and their functions
• Special applications
• Tricks and time savers
• What is a slide rule

Information on all these subjects is contained in The Oughtred Society Slide Rule Reference Manual, described at the beginning of this section.

If you seek information which you do not find here, write to us at "oughtredsociety@comcast.net". We will consult our Answer Panel and send you a reply. See the questions and answers accumulated so far.