"I may be in a position to order a few books for a small group of colleagues who will be participating in a mini-conference this summer. The point of the exercise will be helping academic theologians move beyond the "PowerPoint" level in their appreciation of the possibilities of technology and the Web. If I had roughly US $100 each to spend on books, what would you recommend that I buy for them?"

Many of the usual books recommended in this discussion, ... but an interesting idea about making an online hyper-linked bible.  

What about reading books, ... viewing them as portals to a point in idea space.  All the reviews and conversations and links related to those book together form a manifold within the full noosphere or memosphere or whatever you want to call everything.  When you link, you define yourself by adding the manifold as another dimension of yourself.

On the other hand, maybe you define nothing, and ... you merely link. (I hear somebody yelling loosen up.)