What have you got against BlitzMax?

without doing a dictionarry link the way ive ever used consolidated (aside from the band) is in regards to money
"consolidate your debts into one low monthly repayable sum bla bla bla" sort of thing from the adverts

taking all loans (or other numbers i guess) and totalling them up
loan a
loan b
credit card c
total d (total = consolidated ammount)

so yes wrong word to choose

the only way i could see the word consolidated working in regards to programming would be everything you need in the box
IDE compiler debugger linker etc
but dont they all
(the only thing they lack in general is a 3d modeler and paint program)

as for books
the 4 that i know of
game programming for teens (maneth seti?) blitz 2d iir does the user still post or was he someone who got a publishing deal and picked blitz as his subject?

3d game programming for teens (forgotten who) i think this guy is more of a forum regular (but i could be wrong)

both these books are "for teens" but one written by someone i had never heard of from within the blitz community, although its not a 'bad' thing as the brl product owners vs forum users is a wide gap

krylars book which in parts is out dated as it was from the b2d days

the one you can buy from this website (but no idea if you can get it from any book shop)

C / C++ / C# ok its an old language so you expect a plethora of books
java not as old but just as many books
VB ditto

now you can find game programming books for most languages, but tbh the ones for blitz are purely on that subject (ok b3d is about the games) but if max offers more this is the only repository of information (short of trawling through every users websites for tutorials)