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I am worried about breadth vs depth issues. It's probably why people get degrees in this. :) I'm sorry if I made it sound like I thought it was trivial. I'm not in any hurry, though; The Hardware Hacking books from O'Reilly are ok but not .. I dunno, "enough". The "Teach Yourself .." book is pretty dense...

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You would get the most out of taking the freshman/sophomore level electric circuit analysis series from either your local community college or university. in the lab that goes with the course you can use the o-scopes, function generators, etc. if you like it then take the analog design classes where you really get into active filter and circuit design first at the op amp level then transistor.

That's a problem with most EE books, it's either extreme depth or broad and shallow. You have a good question. I'd like to see others' recommendations.

I wish I could help more, but I still curse the books I learned from:)

why thank you!

I hope this is certainly possible to answer. Theoretically, if someone reads the right books and practices in the right way, along with hefty discipline and focus, one could say they would be very, very familiar with software and systems.

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