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If you're going to get one book on typography, I would grab The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst. It's self–demonstrating and is filled with tons of useful and intriguing examples, as well as an informative, but brief history of type. It's a great introduction that will continue to prove helpful far into the future.

The Form of the Book by Jan Tschichold. He dedicated a tremendous amount of time to researching the minutiae of classical typography. In his very German way, this collection of articles distills all that work down to digestible chunks of info. Judging by Amazon's price, I'm not the only one who loves this book! See if you can find it elsewhere for cheap. I ...

The book that changed the way I see typography was Just My Type by Simon Garfield. It's not exactly technical, it's more of a book of stories about fonts, but it's done and narrated beautifully. I would definitely recommend it! Just My Type examines how Helvetica and Comic Sans took over the world. It explains why we are still influenced by type ...

The best way to find fonts right now is to ask people who know. I'm not aware of a service; any font-identification service is typically created to drive sales, so there's not really an incentive to make version that drives you to FOSS typography. So, you're in the right place :) Font identification happens often here, and there are a lot of people who can ...

Whatfontis.com is an alternative to whatthefont.com, but you have the option to just display free fonts. However, when uploading my example, I could not find anything suitable. A manually found alternative, in my opinion, would be Source Sans Pro, Semibold. As the width differs, I tweaked kerning manually:

Both Adobe and Microsoft have put a lot of resources into CJK font development. The Creative Suites (and InDesign as a standalone product) and Windows 7 ship with several that provide quite a variety of styles among them. In the Adobe Font Store choose "Classification" from the search menu in the right sidebar. You'll find Chinese, Japanese, etc. Fonts.com ...

A list of fonts available on various platforms. Includes lots of monospaced fonts: Matrix of fonts bundled with Mac and Windows, Microsoft Office and Adobe Creative Suite You'll notice that you actually don't have that many options though. Unless you use TypeKit or embed the font on your page (and use CSS @font-face). Creating a font stack is fairly easy. ...