Brady's Guide! OLD SCHOOL! It was so awesome! It made our lives living hell for the following five years since its release! Everyone thought, since it was a guide, it had to be clearly right when it proposed PLD/WHM as a viable option!

Community websites are definitely the best to look towards for basic information. Easy stuff I use wiki, more complex stuff I use BlueGartr.

I agree that a translated version of the FFXI 10th year anniversary book would be super special awesome! Or anything released by SE in terms of more story telling (how about a story of Zilarts when they were actually alive, rather than snipets from present day characters?) and culture galore... I'd be one very happy taru.