Clueless but really want to learn - any great books?

[Steve Finkelstein]

Hi, all!

A friend told me to check out biggerpockets.com when they learned about my interest to potentially invest money into real-estate. 

I'm entirely clueless and learn well by reading in a linear fashion, like a book or something similar. I'm interested in topics such as flipping and rental properties. Is there a goto book that folks here would recommend? Or most of them a waste of time? 

I'm working on consuming content that's available here but would love something to have offline to study as well to see if this is potentially a good fit for me.

Thanks for any and all direction!

/sf