Is anyone familiar with any of these books? I'm particularly interested in the FPGA book but can't find many reviews of it (most say that it's shallow, but don't go into whether the content that's there is good).
Humble Book Bundles are digital only, so that's the same thing that they're selling.
I went through the FPGA book with Oreilly. It is not great but bad. If you know zero about FPGAs and are not super technical (more of a hobbyist), this could be a very good book. It has a bunch of chapters, each is a project with a particular board. Some of the boards are kinda dead now (the version of Papilio .. I couldn't figure out how to get one for my own hobby purposes).
I own a couple of these books (not the fpga) and they are pretty shallow.