Personally I used PokerTracker, just nice information to have when you’re playing a lot of tables and don’t always have the attention span to pay attention to who is being aggressive and who is being nitty on like 10 different tables. Pokerstove is a good tool too for hand ranges and equity, mainly to look hands over after the fact. 

I remember when I was first beginning that the book “Making the Final Table” by Erick Lindgren really helped my game. I’ve recently read “Winning poker tournaments one hand a time vol. 1” by PJ/Rizen/Apestyles.. and think that gives a lot of good information. Websites you should probably know about (if you don’t already) are ones like Sharkscope (SNGs), thepokerdb/officialpokerrankings (MTTs/MTTSNG’s) to track profit/roi/cashes, etc etc. Read the instructions on the website for the hand replayer, it is no doubt a very useful tool. You can upload hand histories for whole tournaments and essentially watch yourself play that tournament, its great for seeing if you have leaks or where you might be making mistakes. 

I think these are a lot of the basics.. good luck to you!

matt

holdem manager is far and away the best HUD. i don’t thnk PT3 even comes close. HEM just does everything that PT3 does plus so much more. it even tracks PLO as well as HE.

not knowing how to properly use pokerstove is sort of a crime imo. many if not most spots you encounter in an mtt can be boiled down to relatively easy if not really simple math problems and stove will tell you your hands exact equity against your opponents range of hands. not to mention that you can just play with it and figure out what types of hands have good equity against ranges–e.g. what hands have the best equity against your standard value range of 99+, AQ+.

as far as reading, just read everything. fill your mind with information, and as you gain experience and put in the work away from the table you will begin to be able to find the holes in the books you’ve read/are reading, and begin to be able to find the good in every book and discard what you don’t need.