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for a low level but not too hard introduction to all things electronics you can't go wrong by getting:

The Art of Electronics, Paul Horowitz ISBN13 978-0521370950

If you know nothing then it will be hard but just plug away.

I haven't looked at this book in quite a while, but I remember being happy with the order in which it covered material. I seem to remember it doing digital electronics pretty far after covering transistors. I wish my college curriculum had followed that order. There was at least one lab where I spent the whole time guessing and interchanging parts instead of realizing that I had a CMOS chip that couldn't drive the TTL chips I had connected to its output.

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