[sdiy] Best kept secret of amazing electronics books

[Florian E. Teply]

On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:45:18 +1100
"Paul Perry" <pfperry at melbpc.org.au> wrote:

> >Tietze/Schenk - Halbleiterschaltungstechnik. It's certainly not
> >ideal,
> > but it covers a lot of ground including the maths involved, signal
> > transmission, basic control theory, etc. Dunno about the English 
> > translation
> 
> I've read the English translation, and it is very good.
> But, the book is pretty scarce and very expensive.
> I don't think I will ever own a copy.
> 
Especially the English edition is hard to come by and damn expensive
(usually north of 250 USD). I've seen only one for less than 100 EUR
right now, and thats apparently from a library.
It's not that bad with the german edition, where you can easily get
older editions for about 25 EUR. The new ones are still way expensive
and out of reach for the average student, but apart from the
computer-related stuff (which basically isn't in there nowadays) the
basics don't change by much. That's why you usually can find an older
edition for said 25 bucks, use it in your studies and sell it again for
the same price if you're in a university city ;-)

HTH,
Florian