Copies of Dean's Electronics are very easy to come by, and the game helpfully provides a few at certain Repair check locations. Reading them will boost your Repair skill a little, until you reach 92%. At that point, they will have no further effect.
| Closest map marker |
Location description |
| Ghost Farm |
On one of the skinless Slags. |
| Gecko Junkyard |
Inside the workshop storage room, in the stuff on the table |
| Vault City |
Downtown, inside Valerie's storeroom. |
| New Reno |
Salvatore's Bar, 1st floor, on the shelves in Mr. Salvatore's apartment. |
| New Reno |
New Reno Arms, inside the workshop in the back room (accessible from the street). |
| Sierra Army Depot |
In the desk in the CO's quarters, level three. |
| Sierra Army Depot |
In the robobrain assembly lab, level three. |
| Mariposa Military Base |
Two outside, one on the ground in the tent and the other inside a locker in another. |
| New California Republic (town) |
On the bookshelf in the outpost, NCR Bazaar. |
| Navarro |
In the middle workbench in the Vertibird hangar |
| Oil Rig |
Two on the shelves in the scientist's office, Detention level. |
| Oil Rig |
Two in CO's storage in the Barracks area. |
| Oil Rig |
On the scientist in the mainframe room, Reactor Level. |
| Closest map marker |
Location description |
| Anchorage Memorial |
In Anchorage Memorial Facility, in the infirmary on the west side, in a floor safe under a table on the north wall of the room. |
| Andale |
To the east, in a truck on the road. The truck is also an easy find by going NW from the Nuka-Cola Plant, straight uphill. |
| Bethesda Ruins |
In Bethesda Offices West, on the third floor at the bottom of a wooden crate on a desk under some other stuff. |
| Canterbury Commons |
In Dominic and Machete`s house on desk. |
| Corvega Factory |
On a desk on the second floor near the Ant Queen. |
| Dunwich Building |
In Forsaken Dunwich Ruins, on a shelf in a small room. |
| Hubris Comics |
In Hubris Comics Utility, on a desk close to the Grayditch sewer exit. |
| Hubris Comics |
Just outside the building, inside of the Pulowski Preservation Shelter. |
| Jury Street Metro Station |
On the workbench. |
| Mama Dolce's |
In Mama Dolce's Processed Foods, on a shelf in a stairwell at the southwest corner of the map |
| MDPL-05 Power Station |
Leaning against a toolbox. |
| Metro Central |
Near Foggy Bottom Station exit, behind a locked gate in generator area on a table. |
| Nuka-Cola Plant |
Factory floor on the desk, take a right when you first enter the building. |
| Our Lady of Hope Hospital |
In the Dry Sewers that lead from the basement of Our Lady of Hope Hospital to Dupont Circle. Its on a shelf in a room at the south end. |
| Ranger Compound |
On the generator in the pantry. |
| Red Racer Factory |
Enter through the front, going to the room straight ahead with a Giant Teddy Bear on a tricycle suspended in the air. If you jump on the barrels to the left of a machine so you are on top there is a tool box with the book next to it. |
| Relay Tower KX-B8-11 |
To the southeast, near Hilltop Farm Ruins, on top of a barrel inside a flipped-over container in a small radioctive pond |
| Rivet City |
In Rivet City Bow, in Pinkerton's lab, on the shelf. Must be stolen. |
| Rockbreaker's Last Gas |
In an abandoned shack on the cliff to the west, in a wooden box under the workbench. |
| Tepid Sewers |
In the Raider hideout (in the tunnels behind sandbags. Enter the hideout, turn left, and enter the small room on your left. The book will be on the right corner behind toolbox (near generator). |
| VAPL-58 Power Station |
On the desk next to computer. |
| VAPL-66 Power Station |
On the desk with the broken computer. |
| Vault 92 |
On a shelf in the destroyed barn to the west. |
| Vernon Square |
In a small sewer area marked as 'Sewer Entrance' (not the sewer down the crater) on the local map in Vernon Square (at the end alley to the right of Cinema, opposite the Statesman Hotel). The book is on a table behind an Average locked door along with a Sawed-Off Shotgun. |
| Warrington Station |
Past the beds where you meet Roy Phillips, hang left and enter the storage room. It's on the shelf left of you when entering. Use the step ladder to see it, or just jump. |