Deus Ex Human Revolution Ebooks Locations Guide (PC, Xbox 360, PS3)

This Deus Ex: Human Revolution eBooks locations guide will show you where to find each of the hidden Ebooks that are scattered about the world of Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

Collecting them all, there are 29 in total, is quite the task because you must find each and every one of them within your first playthrough, if you miss one you will not earn the Achievement/Trophy for accomplishing the monumental task.

Finding every XP Book (the only eBook that counts toward this Achievement) will earn you the Doctorate Achievement worth 50G/Silver Trophy: Read all 29 unique XP books within a single playthrough.

This video shows you where to find all 29 XP Books in the game!

DOCTORATE ACHIEVEMENT – EBOOK LOCATIONS (PART 1)

SARIF INDUSTRIES

1.THE NATURE OF NEUROPLASTICITY

This ebook can be located in the Tech Lab (Frank Pritchard’s office) When you go up to see him to get your retinal augmentation repaired, you will see it on the desk next to him.

2.THE NEURAL HUB: DESIGN FOR A NEXT GENERATION

As you are coming out of Pritchard’s office, Go left towards office 27 (Diane Gonzalez & Nouella Cook). The code to use is 4145. As you enter look to your right it will be on a small table.

3.TYRANNY OF BIOLOGY

Once you have collected the ebook in office 27. Use the vent behind the desk to get into office 25. As you enter the ebook will be on a small table to your right.

SARIF MANUFACTURING PLANT

4.NEURAL INTERFACE PROTOCOLS: THE PEDOT REVOLUTION

You will come out of a elevator and infront of you there will be a praxis kit. The tutorial will come up. Now from the elevator go left and on your right you will see a vent. You can use this vent to get behind the automated turrent so you can move it you have the move/throw augmentation. If not the you can make your way to the security room.

Its the glass room infront of you with a red bin outside. As you walk in, look at the boxes infront of you. There will a cardboard box. Move that box out of the way to see the ebook.

5.ARTIFICIAL MUSCLES

You will find this ebook in the far left corner on a desk by the double doors you will go through to deal with Zeke Sanders. You can get this before or after dealing with him.

DETROIT (1ST VISIT)

6.THE VISUAL CORTEX 2.0 : THE EYE REDESIGNED

After completing your first missioin, you will be back in Detroit. Make your way to the Limb Clinic. As you go in you will see the front reception area now go left and you should see a door ahead. Go through this door and keep going until you see the ebook on a operating tray/trolley.

There are other ebooks in the waiting area but they do not count towards this achievement.

7.NANO-AUGMENTATION: PIPEDREAM OR THEORY FOR THE FUTURE?

If you saved the hostages in your previous mission then you will find this one along the way while doing the side quests MOTHERLY TIES/ ONE GOOD TURN DESERVES ANOTHER.

Easiest way to get this is while you are doing the motherly ties quest you will need to speak to Detective Chase in Brooklyn Court. After speaking to him go up the stairs behind him to the third floor, go right and through that door and the apartment you are looking for is on your right. Go in speak to Greg Thorpe and then make your way to his bedroom. Its on their nightstand to your left.

8.RESPIROCYTE TECHNOLOGY & HAZARDOUS ENVIRONMENT PARSING

Locate the weapon dealer, Seurate.

His building can be found next to the basketball court. You need to go up the fire escape and through a window to get there. The ebook will be in the bedroom, as you go through the bedroom door, look to your left.

9.ARMS AND LEGS FOR MAN: THE STRUCTURE OF CYBERNETIC LIMBS

This apartment can be found in the same builidng as Tindall and O’Malley. Its on the second floor above Tindall’s Apartment. You can enter this building by using the entrance you used to get to Tindall’s apartment with that security gate (0002) or you can use the fire escape around the other side. You will need to place a box on the dumpster under the fire escape to get in.

You can retrieve the codes from a corpse in a hidden alley north of the police precinct. You can either hack the apartment or use the following codes 2356 and 8221 is for the security cage.

DOCTORATE ACHIEVEMENT – EBOOK LOCATIONS (PART 2)

10.THE INTELLIGENCE CIRCUIT

This ebook can be located in Adam’s apartment in the Chiron Building. As you go through the door, go left and look left again to see it on the nightstand next to the bed. While doing the Main quest (Investigating the suicide terrorist) and a Side quest (Motherly Ties) they will both get you to adams apartment as well.

11.THE THREAT OF CYBERNETIC DISCOGNITION DISORDER

This will be part of the main quest. You need to go to the Detroit police precinct morgue. The ebook will be on the mortician’s desk.

12.VESTICULAR AUGMENTATION AND ENHANCED AGILITY FACTORY

When you go into Derelict Row to deactivate the signal jammer, the ebook will be located on a barrel deep inside their territory. Its hard to explain how to find this location, so this clip is a bit longer so i can show you a way to find this ebook. (Refer to video above 2:16)

HIGHLAND PARK (FEMA FACILITY)

13.BLURRING THE BOUNDARIES BETWEEN MAN AND MACHINE

During your infiltration of the FEMA camp, you will come across a cafeteria. Just to the south of the area is a locked room, Inside this room you will find the ebook. The code to get into this room is 7984

HENGSHA ISLAND, CHINA

14.USE OF NEUROMUSCULAR FACILITATION SYSTEMS

This can be collected after completing the Darker Shades Achievement. When the Bartender lets you through to see Tong, follow your marker and it will lead you to him When you enter his office, the ebook will be on the table to your right.

15.OPTICAL ENHANCEMENT FUNCTIONALITY

After leaving Tong’s Office, make your way down the corridor. Pass the bodyguard and go left. Infront you will see a Camera and to your right there will be a vent. If you want to use this vent it will lead you to another room with a dead body in it. Search the body for a pocket secretary. When your done go back and get pass the camera. You need to follow the corridor all the way down, you will see some stairs ahead, go up these stairs and to your right will be a red door. The ebook will be on the desk next to the chair as you walk in.

16.INVASIVE BRAIN MACHINE INTERFACES

You need to make your way to the Youzhao District. Find some scaffolding and get to the roof. Look out for a huge parking sign with a arrow on it. When you are facing this parking sign, to your right there will be a walkway
(bridge) with a lady looking over the edge and two guys talking. Go past this lady and hack the apartment door open. The ebook will be on a desk in the far left corner.

17.THE SCIENCE AND THEORY BEHIND COCHLEAR IMPLANTS

While on the rooftop, facing the parking sign again this time look behind you, there will be some stairs, go down these stairs to level 2. You need to hack the door on your right. The ebook will on the desk next to the guy sitting there.

18.OPTICAL ENHANCEMENT FUNCTIONALITY

This can be located at the Hengsha Court Garden. When you come to the area, the hotel will be block off with guards, Sneak pass them and ahead you will see some stairs leading to the underground station. Instead of going down those stairs, walk past them and look to your left hidden behind a wall in a corner is a vent leading to the courtyard. In this courtyard there will be a lot of guards. You need to sneak past them and make your way up the stairs on the right side. When you get up top stay hidden as there will be two more guards infront of the entrance. The door behind them is the one you need to hack. The ebook is in the kitchen on the counter.

19.BLURRING THE BOUNDARIES BETWEEN MAN AND MACHINE

Once inside the building (Alice Garden Pods) go up the stairs and enter Section 1. Go down the second row to your left. The ebook will be lying in a pod in the far right hand corner (Pod 143)

NOTE: Find this ebook before you locate the dutchman’s pod. As this will prevent you from going back.

DOCTORATE ACHIEVEMENT – EBOOK LOCATIONS (PART 3)

TAI YONG MEDICAL TOWER

20.ICARUS LANDING SYSTEM. “BETTER THAN NATURE”

NOTE: You will need the Icarus Landing System to retrieve this ebook. After you ride the first elevator in the Tai Yong Medical Tower, you will encounter an electrified floor. (The power lever will be in one of the nearby cage’s) Go through to the next room, to your left there will be some boxes and structures to climb, Climb up and you will come
to another room with an elevator. Before going up this elevator, look for a vent to the left. Go through this vent and jump down to get to the ebook.

21.RADICAL EVOLUTION IS A REALITY

After exiting the elevator, go right and follow the path all the way around. Go left and you should see a sign showing which direction to follow to get to the Lee Gang Memorial Laboratory. Go Straight down and then left. You should see a guard standing outside the double doors. Talk to him and when he lefts you through, go in and directly infront of you there will be a Grey Cabinet with Glass windows. The ebook is behind this one lying on a container next to the next Grey Cabinet.

22.BRAIN IMPLANTS

After meeting with Zhao Yun Ru, Make your way to the Tai Yong Medical hangar. Becareful as there will be two active Box Guards. The ebook is on the desk in front of the computer where you need to turn the camera and robots off. As soon as you enter, make your way to the stairs on the opposite end, got through the office up there and cross the walkway to get to the next office. As you enter to your left is the ebook.

PICUS COMMUNICATIONS

23.HUMAN POWERED AUTONOMOUS ENERGY RECLAMATION SYSTEMS

After taking the elevator, you will be in the Picus TV Lobby, Move forward, then left. To your right is a door you need to hack, Once unlocked, go inside and you will see a security room to your right and some stairs to the left. Go up those stairs and then look behind you. On the edge of the counter by the big screen is the ebook.

24.HEALING THYSELF: HEALTH PRESERVATION IMPLANTS

After riding down to the sub-basement in the funicular, you will encounter a “hand encompassing the world”Sculpture. Go past this sculpture and turn left to the operating area 3. Becareful there are guards in there. Go inside and to your right there will be some stairs leading up to a office, you want to more towards the middle because you want to enter the bottom section. The ebook will be on the desk in that office.

DETROIT (2ND VISIT)

25.VAGUS NERVE STIMULATORS: REPURPOSING THE TECHNOLOGY

You will find this ebook easier if you manage to complete The Throwdown. After confronting him he will ask to speak to you back in his dressing room. In the room by Taggert’s dressing room you will find the ebook in the far left corner next to the coffee machine. (This room has a big screen and red sofa in it).

26.DERMAL MODIFICATION PROCESS

Locate Dr. Isaias Sandoval in his bunker. You may or may not meet the conditions for The Last Straw. But you will still be able to pick up the ebook on his desk.

HENGSHA ISLAND, CHINA (2ND VISIT)

27.UNDERSTANDING VISION (PART 2)

Enter the Harvester’s Hideout in Youzhao District (the Hengsha area that’s on the west side of the map. On the floor where you find Dr. Sevchenko’s GPL signal, there is a autopsy room next to four holding cells. The Ebook is in this autopsy room, on a table by a blue TV monitor.

SINGAPORE (OMEGA RANCH)

28.DELGADO AND THE STIMOCEIVER

While following your objectives to find Eric Foss and Nia Colvin. Look for room G-23. When your inside this room go to the next section of the room and look for the ebook. It will be on a desk to your left.

29.REIMAGINING RETINAL IMPLANTS: DOCTOR DOBELL’S SUCCESS

After defeating Jaron Namir and locating Dr. Megan Reed, hack the safe in the room for the final ebook.

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