Semantic Web book recommendations?

A friend asked me for a recommendation on a good book on Semantic Web. Do you recommend one? I really can’t think of one. I learned everything I know about the Semantic Web on irc.freenode.net/#swig (a.k.a the sw ‘hood). If I were to describe my understanding of the Semantic Web, I’d say that I’m definitely not on the dark side, I prefer Turtle over RDF/XML, if metadata was cheap and tax-free I’d use RDFa and if I chat with TimBL on the subject, we’d agree on most things (of course, what I like is different that what I think is either feasible or possible today). However, the main problem is that there’s not one good definition for the Semantic Web. If you read about the Semantic Web on the Web :) you’ll find a million opinions and that just can’t be good for adoption. Heck, we can’t even define Web 2.0 or Web 3.0 much worse the Web that doesn’t really exist? or does it? or did it? I think everyone has agreed on the definition of the Web, so that’s a start, but from now on, I’m not sure we’ll ever agree as a civilization on what the definition of the overall state of the network name should be at any given moment in time.
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