[sdiy] Best kept secret of amazing electronics books

[Thomas Strathmann]

On 11/16/10 13:46 , Florian E. Teply wrote:
> 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 ;-)

I paid 80 Euros for the newest edition not so long ago after being fed 
up with lending it from the university's library. It's not terribly 
cheap, but then again it's roughly 1600 pages worth of material. Most of 
it is probably not relevant to students, but it's always good to have a 
few books in which you can look up things, not having to resort to the 
Web all the time. Side note: I'm always suspicious of students who don't 
own/keep a few books, but that's because I like books and apart from 
papers/datasheets/application notes use them more than anything else as 
a source of information -- added benefit being: you can cite them if you 
have to.

	Thomas