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I use books and charts for deep sky objects, but as the planets move, the only useful books are almanacs like Astronomy 2010. Free software like Carts du ciel or stellarium will enable you to print maps for planets. Venus, Saturn and Jupiter should present little problem if you look in th paper and see what time they rise and set as they are very bright and obvious. Uranus and Neptune will require maps. I prefer Carts du Ciel to Stellarium, google will get you to the download page.
PS Astronomy 2010 is also very useful for finding out which moon is which when you're observing jupiter etc and is well worth the investment as its chockers with good stuff. Bintel have it, and Mike sells it through IIS but I'm not sure if he'd still have it in stock this late in the year.
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