Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Deus Ex: Human Revolution

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Doctorate

Doctorate

Read all 29 unique XP books within a single playthrough.

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How to unlock the Doctorate achievement in Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Definitive Guide

Here is my video walkthroughs for all the eBooks, it's a 2 part walkthrough showing you all 29 unique eBooks as they appear in the game. I have tried to make them as detailed as possible, even showing you how to collect the necessary eBooks undetected. I hope this helps. Finally, video 1 shows you eBooks 1 - 15 and video 2 shows you eBooks 16 - 29. Thanks Gamers
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Awesome video. Looked over it and it makes perfect sense for the ones covered so far. When do you expect the next video to go up?
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By Kornfan2007 on 30 Aug 2011 11:13
Thanks :-)
Do you have a code for the safe in that white room where the last eBook is in?
My hacking level is only 3, so I can't hack the safe (and don't have enough Praxis to upgrade to lvl5).
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By k0ngzor on 01 Sep 2011 16:21
Awesome! Thanks for that great guide. :) You got my vote.
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By XBU Philippe on 03 Sep 2011 13:53
Thanks for the Great Comments so far gamers
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By British Legends on 03 Sep 2011 16:50
@kOngzor - have a hunt around the rooms directly under where you find Dr Colvin. There should be an AUD on a shelf there.

And thanks for the videos BL! The text descriptions of the other solution were fine but some of them in Hengsha were a pain to find without knowing exactly where to look.
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By Hirsute Dave on 05 Sep 2011 06:45
Thx perfect vid guide although in one or two scenes would be a short view on the map helpful for people who haven´t played the game three times already like me ;)
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By AkkonShinigami on 05 Sep 2011 16:30
nice guide, i only got 26 on my first playthrough and didn't really want to scour the game again so thanks
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By rigzzsy on 09 Sep 2011 12:12
Video #1 would be better if you would show how to get to the cafeteria in the FEMA plant because I've beenroaming around the building with the elevator to the boss fight and haven't even come close to finding it.
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By Drummin003 on 11 Sep 2011 05:44
also, if you're careful and move very slowly you can cover the turret at 2.00 with 2 stacked cardboard boxes and it won't detect you
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By rigzzsy on 11 Sep 2011 13:54
Fantastic solution. Thanks
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By Dropkick Hope86 on 12 Sep 2011 00:33
Absolutely fantastic videos, thanks a lot! :)
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By XBU Philippe on 14 Sep 2011 14:14
Very helpful - thanks!
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By Lurking Lawyer on 17 Sep 2011 20:36
Great guide! Thanks a lot!
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By Enrarliz on 18 Sep 2011 17:57
Great video, but what happened to the written guide? They worked well together.
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By on 24 Sep 2011 03:30
Please bring the written descriptions back, they really helped check off all the books.
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By BingoJJ on 26 Sep 2011 21:56
do you get the achievement at the end? not to sound like a dumbass but the achievement says XP books...they are eBooks? i have played the whole game and not found anything called an xp book, but i also dont think a game designer could mess something up that bad....
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By Samouri9000 on 30 Sep 2011 04:55
For anyone having a hard time finding the cafeteria for ebook 13 in the FEMA plant, just look at the map and the cafeteria is in between men's room and the ladies room, on the same floor you get of the elevator, no need to go up or down floors to find it, hope this helps.
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By JohnnY B GooD79 on 03 Oct 2011 23:41
Kenobi, its not possible. :( Hiding a book under a BOX in a place where you can't return is cruel and lame. Sick twisted French-Canadian developers!
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By ElektroDragon on 23 Oct 2011 10:11
A correction to #8. This is NOT Tindall's apartment. It's in the same building, but is 2 floors ABOVE Tindall.

As I waws trying to complete these while doing the quests, it left me quite confused wny the "Tindalls partment" the quest lead me to looked nothing like the one in the video, until I looked around the building and found that the narration of the video is just wrong.
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By CndnViking on 19 Dec 2011 10:29
Your vids worked perfectly for me. Very very helpful. Thank you!!
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By ArchTirannus on 29 Dec 2011 17:43
Where did the codes for number 8 come from? As much as I appreciate this guide, I would like the find the codes too. Just seems a bit to easy to blindly punch in a code.
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By Onza on 22 Feb 2012 11:05
Brilliant guide, man. Great work. +1!
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By Mortis Invictus on 17 Jun 2012 03:11
Just read the last book in the white room.... achievement didn't pop. Extremely frustrated right now because I know I didn't miss any. Anyone know if it pops at the ending?
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By hckyplyr20 on 26 Jun 2012 04:46
it is worth mentioning to people ahead of time that they should have the icarus landing system for book 20 and level 5 hacking ready for book 29. might want to add that to the top of your guide.
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By bryan dot exe on 24 Sep 2012 23:54
Great video guide, thanks a ton!
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By MustaPastori on 02 Nov 2012 18:21
I missed ebook #8 originally and my question is this: I just got back to Detroit (after China) and was wondering if I would be able to grab it still (with the riots going on and all)?
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By Mr Granstaff on 25 Sep 2013 15:40
I'm assuming it's blocked off, so I figure I would ask since I'm not at home at the moment to verify and was just curious.
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By Mr Granstaff on 25 Sep 2013 15:41
is there more then 29 in the game? it feels like ive collected alot already and im not even half way through
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By The Joelstr on 26 Dec 2013 04:24
oh i see.....only the ones that give the scholar bonus
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By The Joelstr on 26 Dec 2013 07:30
For number 20, if you can't hack the level 4 keypad to the breaker switch cage go through the little vent on the right and turn right. Great guide but a little more description of where to start from wouldn't go a miss.
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By o DEEVIUS o on 11 Apr 2014 17:46
Excellent guides, thanks!
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By DAD2206 on 22 Aug 2016 23:01
For the 29th and final XP book, you can simply open the safe in the "white room" by inputting the code: 9273. No Level 5 hacking augmentation needed!
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By Styles Plural on 16 Dec 2021 10:07
EASIER WAY TO GET EBOOK #12

The Ebook in derelict row that is on top of the barrels, surrounded by 3-5 enemies, can be gotten on your second trip to detroit MUCH easier, and since everyone is rioting, there are no more gangsters in derelict row to give you trouble, you can just walk straight to the ebook and than leave. This is how it happened in my playthrough, sorry in advance if it is not the same for you.
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By xL3N1N on 06 Sep 2011 12:36
@Samour They are called XP books because they are the only eBooks in the game that give you XP when you read them (200XP for each one to be exact).

Just finished my second play through on hard, worked with a written guide to get all XP books, but it seems I've missed one still! I guess I probably screwed something up after getting it (also was going for Pacifist) and restarted from a save where I didn't have the book yet and forgot to get it again. Only noticed this on the last 29th book and couldn't return to Detroit where the missing book is. The save for Detroit was already overwritten too because the game only give you 20 saves max and I cycle through all of them all the time.

So, just a warning to others, don't forget to routinely save after you get each book, the game doesn't make it easy to see how many or what XP books you already have. You checked it off in a guide, but then reload the save and you can be screwed as I am :)

Oh well, would have a reason to play through it again in a year or something with all of the new DLC.
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By eycher on 02 Oct 2011 16:24
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If you'd like something that can be printed out, I'd recommend the guide over at IGN. It's what I'm currently using to get this achievement.

http://uk.ign.com/wikis/deus-ex-human-revolution/XP_Book_Loc...
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Nice guide but the descriptions for 14 and 15 are really vague. Look for the building called Downtown Apartments and climb the stairs to get to the roof mentioned.
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By HeyMrBassman on 26 Nov 2011 19:22
I like reading better than watching! Thumbs up. And thanks HeyMrBassman for the clarification!
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By Onza on 18 Feb 2012 05:03
So where is this alley with the corpse (door codes for number 8)?
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By Onza on 22 Feb 2012 11:16
I find this guide much better because it contains a screenshot of the game map as well as screenshots of the terrain. Without the map, it's hard to identify where the Ebooks are:

http://www.msxbox-world.com/xbox360/guides/209/deus-ex-human...

Be aware though that it seems to finish loading and then redirect to another page. You need to let it load, then stop the redirect.
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By CovetousCash64 on 02 Oct 2012 03:14
Great guide - had some difficulty with 1 or 2, but nothing serious.
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By a Fi1thy Casual on 31 Jan 2013 15:20
sadly i can't get msxbox-world link to load. redirects immediately. when visited with the Wayback Machine, many of the guide's pages have missing images. :(
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By Putin on 03 Jun 2023 21:49
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If your missing any and not sure which ones you can check by pressing BACK and going to your media hub, press X to change location and then Y to only show e-books and here is a list of the ones you will need to earn this achievement.

1 Sarif Manufacturing Plant - Neural Interface Protocols: The PEDOT Revolution [Volume 9]

2 Sarif Manufacturing Plant - Artificial Muscles [Volume 6]

3 Sarif Headquarters - The Nature of Neuroplasticity [Volume 15]

4 Sarif Headquarters - The Neural Hub - Design For a Next Generation [Volume 17]

5 Sarif Headquarters - The Tyranny of Biology [Volume 11]

6 Detroit, LIMB Clinic - The Visual Cortex 2.0 - The Eye, Redesigned [Volume 14]

7 Detroit, Greg Thorpe's apartment - Nano-Augmentation: Pipedream, or Theory for The Future? [Volume 29]

8 Detroit, Seurat's bedroom - Respirocyte Technology & Hazardous Environment Parsing [Volume 27]

9 Detroit, Police Morgue - The Threat of Cybernetic Discognition Disorder [Volume 20]

10 Detroit, Chiron Building - The Intelligence Circuit [Volume 26]

11 Detroit, Downtown Apartments - Arms (and Legs) for Man: The Structure of Cybernetic Limbs [Volume 5]

12 Detroit, Derelict Row - Vestibular Augmentation and Enhanced Agility Factoring [Volume 18]

13 FEMA Detention Center - Blurring The Boundaries between Man and Machine [Volume 1]

14 Lower Hengsha, Hengsha Court Gardens - Understanding Vision (Part 1) [Volume 2]

15 Lower Hengsha, The Hive - Optical Enhancement Functionality [Volume 23]

16 Lower Hengsha, The Hive - The Use of Neuromuscular Facilitation System [Volume 25]

17 Lower Hengsha, Alice Garden Pods - Electrogravitic Technology Applications [Volume 19]

18 Lower Hengsha, Youzhao district - The Science and Theory behind Cochlear Implants [Volume 8]

19 Lower Hengsha, Youzhao district - Invasive Brain Machine Interfaces [Volume 13]

20 Tai Yong Medical - Better Than Nature? [Volume 28]

21 Tai Yong Medical - Radical Evolution is a Reality [Volume 12]

22 Tai Yong Medical - Brain Implants [Volume 4]

23 Picus Communications- Human Powered - Autonomous Energy Reclamation Systems [Volume 21]

24 Picus Communications - Healing Thyself - Health Preservation Implants [Volume 16]

25 Detroit, Convention Center - Vagus Nerve Stimulators - Repurposing the Technology [Volume 10]

26 Detroit, Sandoval's sewer office - Dermal Modification Processes [Volume 24]

27 Lower Hengsha, - Understanding Vision (part 2) [Volume 3]

28 Omega Ranch - Delgado and the Stimoceiver [Volume 22]

29 Omega Ranch - Reimagining Retinal Implants: Doctor Dobelle's Success [Volume 7]
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Great solution, very easy to understand clap
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By Quantum Binman on 26 Jul 2013 14:46
WARNING FOR EVERYONE ATTEMPTING THIS:

-Very Minor Spoilers of locations and NPC names-

There will be a book in Hengsha that becomes unavailable if you follow a certain path to your objective.

When you infiltrate the Hive nightclub, do not go in through the basement (via the Sewer entrance). If you make it to the the vent and see a cutscene with Tong talking to a Belltower soldier, you've blown it. In fact, if you even load the Hive via the basement entrance that first time it might not work. The door to Tong's office will never open and you will not be able to access the E-book in there.

Instead, go in through the front (there is a VIP pass in the Huang Hua Hotel sitting out in one of the rooms, or I believe you can pay a cover to the bouncer) and talk to the bartender and then Tong on the second floor of the club. Win the persuasion challenge to gain the ability to talk with him in his basement office.

EDIT: CovetousCash64 has pointed out that the outside vent above the dumpster can also be used to access the Hive without branching the quest in the wrong way if you don't wind up going in the front. Just avoid the sewer entrance folks, and use all 20 of those saves!

Edit: Might as well mention that you will need The Icarus Landing System before you inflitrate Tai Yong Medical as well, while we are talking missables.

Also, make sure you can hack a level 5 safe for the last book, or just have an auto-unlock tool handy.
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Important note: To unlock a few of the E-Books, you'll need to purchase certain Augmentations (as stated in the Roadmap) and complete some tasks throughout the story.

#1: When in Sarif Industries during the attack, there will be a room later on rigged with a bomb and some hostages tied up. When you get to this room make sure you defuse the bomb.
#1.2: From #1 and at the end of the level, make sure you convince Zeke Sanders not to kill the hostage. This way the guys wife you saved will let you into a room later on where an E-Book is located. Though this is achievement related, so you should be doing this.
#3: Make sure you upgrade you Hack Augmentation to level 5. Later on there are some E-Books behind level 5 locked doors and safes.
#4: Finally, make sure you purchase the Icarus Landing System in the Back Augmentations. You'll need this later on for another E-Book.

There's a total of 29 E-Books throughout the Deus Ex story. There's actually many many more, but only 29 are story related ones and are linked to this achievements. You'll know if you've collected one if on the left side you get the XP bonus 'Scholar'.



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Here is a 2 part video guide I used to help me out on my Xbox 360 version of getting this trophy/achievement.
Please be sure to note that some of the eBooks can be had much easier if you have chosen to equip Jensen with both the Hacking: Capture Level 5 and Punch through Wall Arm Augmentation. There is also one eBook located in Tai Yong Medical that can only be accessed if you have purchased the Icarus Landing System Augmentation.
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16 Nov 2013 19:57

Highly Missable! It is crucial that you are thorough in your scavenges throughout each area, including sidequest locations and be on the lookout for ebooks written by Hugh Darrow. Reading each ebook gives you the "Scholar" bonus worth 200 XP.

Warning: You need the Icarus Landing System Augmentation before entering Tai Yong Medical in Hengsha, to avoid missing a XP book. You also need to have Hacking:Capture 5 upgrade to access certain XP books in Detroit and Singapore.

We highly recommend this XP Book Location Guide by Absolute Steve.
Video guide by PowerPyx

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These videos show all 29 books:
Part 1
Part 2
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23 Jun 2013 13:19

Guide to all books.
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