Book suggestions for Contact manifold and legendrian knots

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Can any one suggest some basic books for reading contact manifold and legendrian knots???

I tried some survey notes but I can't move after a stage because I need more definition from some papers. Thanks advance.

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http://people.math.gatech.edu/~etnyre/preprints/papers/oblec.pdf

http://people.math.gatech.edu/~etnyre/preprints/papers/legsur.pdf

Ozbagci-Stipsicz Surgery on Contact 3-manifolds and Stein Surfaces

Geiges An Introduction to Contact Topology (slightly more advanced than the other sources in my opinion)

Typically, these all require some basic differential topology (at the level of Guillemen-Pollack) and probably some familarity with a book such as Rolfsen or Gompf-Stipsicz for the basics of 3 and 4 manifold topology.