it's neither comprehensive nor, as far as i know, historically important, but i've sure learned a lot about electronics from it

i certainly haven't read through it like a novel, though! it's more like, read a few pages, draw a few schematics, run a few simulations, write a few pages of notes, repeat. sometimes the pages are pages i've read previously. plausibly i'll never finish the book, and that's fine with me

i find it both more accessible and more reliable than commonly suggested alternatives like sedra & smith; what alternative would you recommend?