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Maybe I'm odd, but I've always felt like I learn better from a well organized reference book than most textbooks. In particular for programming languages or hardware references, it's like having a map to the entire area, instead of a textbook trying to walk someone down a path, maybe too fast, or too slow.

Any opinion on the companion volume the same authors created last year, Learning the Art of Electronics: A Hands-On Lab Course?

Haven't read it, but: the class was amazing and difficult. There was an older lab notes companion book we used, but mostly it was "Professor draws a circuit, explains it via a metaphor, along with a rule of thumb or two... now go build a thing". Like learning a foreign language through total immersion.

So I can't speak to this particular book, but I can say that there's a (a) decent chance it's quite good and (b) expect to do a lot of work if you want to really understand this stuff.

Yes, certainly has a great reference of circuitry but absolutely not pedagogical. That dull grey hardbound cover shudders.