What is Reddit's opinion of Grob: Basic Electronics (Electronics Books Series)?

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For those that don't know, this is one of the classic CRT engineering textbooks. Bernard Grob was an engineer at RCA during their golden era, when they were the world leader in CRT TVs. Grob also had a very popular textbook for intro to electronics called Basic Electronics. If you want to learn the basics of circuit design, make sure to check that book out, it is great!

I'd supplement it with something like Grob.

So as a good all-in-one book for electronic devices and circuit theory, I'd recommend... "Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory" by Boylestad and Nashelsky https://www.pearson.com/us/higher-education/program/Boylestad-Electronic-Devices-and-Circuit-Theory-11th-Edition/PGM218662.html The focus there is more on electronic devices (i.e. semiconductor devices like diodes, transistors and op amps).

For a resource explaining passive components (resistors, capacitors and inductors) and their use in circuits something like https://global.oup.com/academic/product/fundamentals-of-electric-circuits-9780195430363?cc=nz&lang=en& is a good one - I used it when I started learning electrical theory.

There are bound to be other basic electronics texts such as https://www.amazon.com/Grob-Basic-Electronics-Books/dp/002802253X and if you look around I'm sure you'll find PDF copies of these books that tend to fall off the back of the ~~truck~~ internet, when pushed ;-).

The Art of Electronics is a great resource for arcane knowledge as well as good circuit design principles (among other things), but I'd probably not recommend it for a beginner.

Hope this helps.