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Smokey:

--- Quote from: Benta on February 07, 2023, 10:03:19 pm ---Just musing...
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... and leave the "allaboutcircuits" websites to the amateurs.
EEVBlog excepted, of course, because here's where the owners, and more importantly: readers) of those books are present.

--- End quote ---

I should really catalog all the books on the shelves here.  That would be an interesting list.

I love adding new books to my technical library.  Ebay is absolutely amazing for $5-$10 books with WAY more than $5-$10 worth of value.  Sometimes I feel like my mailman must think I'm running a used book business or something.

Sal Ammoniac:
I have many books in my collection, such as The Art of Electronics, in both printed form and eBook form. Mostly for convivence. I use the printed books at home and the eBook versions on the road.

Benta:
Bob Pease, "Troubleshooting Analog Circuits" is also on my shelf. Personal present.
Great guy, we had him at a company engineer's meeting as speaker. Had dinner with him afterwards, the discussion was very stimulating and often surprising. But a totally "down-to-earth" type, one of the most sane and conscious persons I've ever met. It was a nice evening.

Neomys Sapiens:
Slightly over 1000 tomes in print and around 24xx as Ebooks (excluding appnotes, FMs, TMs etc.) and all listed (including the appnotes, FMs, TMs etc.).
 :phew:
But several GB and also several stacks of copied paper remain to process.
 :scared:

Just some highlights which have helped me much:

- the complete, 6-volume set of the Telefunken Laborbuch Series
- Handbuch der Elektronik, T. Adamowicz et.al., Franzis 1979 (much on RF topics)
- of course, the big Nuehrmann (Werkbuch der Elektronik)
- Sylvia Goldsmith, Real-Time Systems Development
- On SW topics also Knuths 'Basic Algorithms' and the masive 'Software Engineers' Reference Book'
- Tool Engineers Handbook,McGraw-Hill 1959
- Mechanisms and mechanical devices sourcebook, Sclater/Chironis
- Schaltungsaufgaben in der fernschreib- und Signaltechnik, Siemens (magnetic counters, logic and dividers!)
- the excellect Thiemig series on nuclear instrumentation
- and much much more on pulse power techniques, EMI/EMC/EW, SRMQ, Aerospace electronics, electromechanics

For RF and EW topics, always look out for the stuff from Artech House (UK). And several of the IET-published works are also indespensable.

I already saw that several of you keep the Electronics' engineers handbook (Fink/Christiansen) on their shelves - this was one of the first expensive books which I got (I was around 16). It is excellent - an no pirated scan or OCR seems to exist! Several company-published technical pocketbooks are also real pearls.Like the 'Teldix Taschenbuch der Navigation' or the 'SEL pocketbook'. Always be on the lookout for such!
Maybe I can sometime later give another few examples of outstanding works.

gbaddeley:
For pre-transistor general & practical electronics tech, it is hard to go past Radiotron Designers Handbook, 4th Ed. I also have Ed. 1, 2, 3 for curiosity sake. The RCA tube handbooks are also very good.

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