@mikeazo So true… (sadly, I just had to use that one a sec ago).

Just checked on what Stackoverflow uses and I think they managed to come up with a more on-point description:

> Questions asking us to recommend or find a book, tool, software library, tutorial or other off-site resource are off-topic for Stack Overflow as they tend to attract opinionated answers and spam. Instead, describe the problem and what has been done so far to solve it.

Not sure, but maybe an alike formulation is worth a considderation before we simply dump the close reason all together?

@e-sushi, that would certainly be an improvement, although I would like to see an "other site" option for tools (SuperUser) and perhaps libraries (Software Recommendations). IIRC they are only available for graduated sites, but that ought to be happening...