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  <title><![CDATA[Getting Started in Electronics]]></title>
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  <default-description>This is a complete electronics course in 128 pages! Author Forrest Mims teaches you the basics, takes you on a tour of analog and digital components, explains how they work, and shows you how they are combines for various applications.  Includes circuit assembly tips and 100 electronic circuits and projects you can build and test.</default-description>
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this book mislead me more than it taught me.  I remember as a kid being frustrated by my inability to make circuits work, and I think this book's simplistic descriptions are partially to blame.  The emphasis on electron current instead of conventional current, the drawings of little electron...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44919448">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a pretty basic book when it comes Electronic circuits and the theory behind it. There are plenty of other books that go far more indepth. However, this book is cheap, short, and written in a way that someone (like myself) who doesn't have a strong background in Electronic Engineering can hav...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34777340">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you are interested in getting the solid basis in electronics  this is where you start.    Forrest M. Mims, III is the closest thing to god (who is the closest thing to Bre Pettis) where electronics are concerned.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The most amazing facet of this book is that it is - no kidding - handwritten with hand-drawn pictures.  Unlike any other handwritten book I've ever seen, the pages are attractive and pleasant to look at.<br/><br/>Okay, I'm not endorsing any views of the author by reading this book.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[GREAT!  Forrest Mims is the MAN!  Very thorough and well illustrated introductory books to everything about electronics.  breaks down the specifics of each part and its role in an electronic circuit]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Learned electronics from this. Yay Radio Shack! I bet it's still the same book inside, too.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[awesome book, really interesting! =D]]></body>
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