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favourite technical books
Benta:
--- Quote from: PlainName on February 07, 2023, 10:45:37 pm ---They might be like Ebay items - that's the notional price the vendor wants to sell them for, but is anyone buying them at that price?
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Yes.
David Aurora:
Anything by Bob Pease or Jim Williams. They just got straight to the point with the practical knowledge so you could walk to the bench and get things done. The epitome of the concept that a real expert can explain their wisdom to a 5 year old.
Kind of the opposite approach of the much hyped AOE thing to me. Every now and then I pick it up to reference something and within 5 minutes I'm just like "Fuck it, there's probably an app note from Williams on this subject somewhere" and I put it down for another year.
pdenisowski:
--- Quote from: Benta on February 07, 2023, 10:03:19 pm ---Are all you guys aware of the value of the books on your shelves?
Many are out of print, and many are still available, but they all still cost 50...150$ apiece.
And they're of a quality (content-wise) that no web site can match.
My message to good engineers: "Put your money where your mouth is" and take care of and extend your library...
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Agree completely.
I was recently trying to find a copy of Helszajn's "YIG Resonators and Filters" (1985) and could not find one for sale anywhere worldwide, at any price. It's one of the "standard" references listed in many books, IEEE articles, etc. on YIG, but it appears to have become commercially unobtainable. (My local university library supposedly has a copy)
pdenisowski:
--- Quote from: PlainName on February 07, 2023, 10:45:37 pm ---
--- Quote ---but they all still cost 50...150$ apiece
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They might be like Ebay items - that's the notional price the vendor wants to sell them for, but is anyone buying them at that price?
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Ebay (and Amazon) often suggest pricing based on what other people have paid for the same or similar items in the past: it's getting much harder to find "deals" on used books these days because now everyone is an expert on book values :) Even some thrift shops now scan donated books to see which ones are worth more than a few dollars and those then get listed online (at "market" prices) instead of sold in the store with the romance and cowboy novels.
And yeah, 50-150 USD for a technical book is not uncommon at all. I do a lot of "research" for my job and if a book could save me significant time trying to find information, it's well worth it. I recently was working on a project where I found some extremely useful information in a book that's been out of print for decades.
tautech:
One I often borrowed in the early days especially when undertaking one's right of passage building your first PSU:
National Semiconductor, Voltage Regulator Handbook and IIRC the 1982 version
Some darn useful references for rectifier, smoothing and of course common regulator designs albeit they are ordinary linear designs and by todays standards dated yet still of great guidance for the electronic newbie.
ePay search showing a few versions:
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=national+semiconductor+voltage+regulator+handbook+1982&_svsrch=1
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