I want to learn about electronics. What would be a good introductory book to start with?

Are you looking to play and experiment with electronic building blocks and get started making things? Forrest Mims III, an excellent author of handbooks, has published a compilation.

Getting Started with Electronics: Forrest M. Mims II: 9780945053286 Amazon.com: Books

There were many others, but I was able to list them all. Once you have outgrown this one you will be able to form your own opinion about the next step. Have fun

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Electronics can be compared to carpentry. Once you have made a few things, what are you going to do with them? It can be difficult to make permanent builds after your first lessons. The Mims series may seem a little out of date to some. Its use of “through hole”, and a lack “surface mount” technology is the main reason. Focusing on small, standalone projects that can be done in 10-30 minutes and then taken down easily allows for a lot more progress. Individuals may not realize the interconnectedness of small projects. This provides an easy way to create a variety of stand-alone projects that can be quickly modeled on a breadboard and used as building blocks. Although almost all these parts are still available, it’s a challenge to navigate an online electronics store like Digikey or Newark.

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