Help finding a book

[Amaranthine]

I recently finished a few books on assembly and am reading a third dealing heavily with graphics programming (in assembly). After reading these books binary has become seemingly more mysterious. I am reading another book on hardware architecture (mostly memory and CPU) that will reveal more to me, but I want something else.

I would like to learn to read compiled binary/hex, can anyone point me in the direction of a book? Or some way I can accomplish this?

[npa]

yeah, look for tutorials on "opcodes"

there are manuals around listing all of them,
try this site as a starting point: http://win32asmboard.cjb.net

but, in general, you'd use a disassembler

[Amaranthine]

Yeah, I have a few dissassemblers, working on my ability to read it as it is much harder than reading not-yet-assembled assembly. I've been working with ollydebug.

Thanks

I see that the opcode for xor is:
0F EF
So how would you do something like this "xor eax,edi"(or any values for that matter) in binary/hex?

[iwanttolearnc]

u havent mentioned the architecture

[Amaranthine]

ah, sorry, x86.