Into ccie IGP

I am getting into core IGP of my ccie studies. I am into Rip now though its pretty easy the amount of learning i get & the speed of configuration which is key in the lab is going up significantly. I hope to get started with Vol2 labs by May end.

As of now my status with rip is as follows;

RIP:

Routing TCP/IP vol 1 Second edition --- Completed
IE volume 1 ver 4.1 --- Completed

Yet to be done is the IE volume 1 ver 5.0

Lets see how it goes.