The Forrest Mims engineer's notebook

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1. StratoscopeJun 2025
   You must be thinking of The Forrest Mims Engineer's Notebook or his Engineer's Mini-Notebook or Getting Started in Electronics.

   The Engineer's Notebook is still in print:

   https://www.amazon.com/dp/1878707035

   If you download the free Kindle sample, it has some of the illustrations, but mostly just individual components.

   This Reddit post has a couple of pages from Getting Started:

   https://www.reddit.com/r/ECE/comments/ik1gw4/from_the_book_g...

   The Internet Archive has the complete Mini-Notebook:

   https://archive.org/details/Forrest_Mims-Engineers_Mini-Note...

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2. bkrazApr 2022
   Understanding solid state electronics - https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Solid-State-Electronics...

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