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No idea regarding a book, but if you're cutting things out to use as samples, why not use the computer and print screenshots? You can get a lot of those from here.

Just upgraded my work monitor, to this! Bang for the buck is out of this world and create colour correction. Strongly advise you put one of these forward. And shop around a bit, some places have this screen on offer for £200 less

BenQ PD3200U 32 Inch 4K Graphic Design Monitor, 3840 x 2160 UHD, IPS,100% Rec.709, sRGB, CAD/CAM, Animation, Darkroom Mode, KVM, Hotkey Puck, DualView, Flicker-free, HDMI, DP, Black by Amazon Learn more: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01N4AIIIV/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_P1HQFWRG4AFPR2HWC155

Of course! Happy to spread the knowledge!

https://www.freepik.com/search?format=search&page=1&query=Paper%20texture

There’s the paper textures, if you need any other free resources like fonts, courses, free png or vector files, free ways to remove backgrounds automatically, templates, animations, etc.. I can provide links to some really good resources. Freepik is great btw, Freeject is a little known secret. I’ve never heard anybody else talk about it and they have loads of useful things!

https://www.fosshub.com/ This place is a good start for Windows OS. I would suggest to try dualbooting with Linux at some point. I dualboot and get the best of both worlds.

What type of design would you want to learn like illustration, branding/logos or another?

If your want to learn general rules of design I recommend this one : https://www.amazon.co.uk/Graphic-Design-Theory-Context/dp/0500290490

I've had very good luck with the Adobe "classroom in a book' series. They provide all the assets and have step by step guide tutorials to learn the software... recently completed the After Effects book to learn animation and was very pleased.

https://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Illustrator-CC-Classroom-Book/dp/0321929497