RCBS Rock Chucker press is a great press and should last forever.
As far a books go, if you look at hodgdens website they have data available for free for a lot of cartridges, for hodgden, IMR, and Win powders. If you use a different powders than that, you will have to buy a book, but it is a good place to start. A lot of the ammo makers also make books with good data in them.
As far as getting started reloading, and how to do it, you can also find free info all over the place. I recommend finding someone who is a confident reloader and seeing how it is done in person. Plus they may let you load a couple of cartridges for them so you get the hands on feel of it. There are a lot of little odds and ends tooling that goes along with reloading, and if you are able to get with someone that already reloads, you will be able to see what is needed.
Last of all, have fun with it.
+1 on ABCs of reloading.