Fantastic book! It indeed got me started in electronics, along with a 300-in-1 project kit my dad found at a thrift shop.
I stopped reading the book when I got to transistors. I asked my parents what it meant “therefore, transistors act like switches and amplifiers”. They looked at each other and answered that they had no idea. In the pre-internet days, if your parents didn’t know and you didn’t have easy access to a library, you hardly had any options for getting additional explanations of a topic. Since I didn’t understand how transistors could be considered amplifiers (and in my opinion, he really didn’t explain that aspect of them) I gave up on the book. Still, I learned a ton from the book as a teen and have done a lot of electronics projects over the years.
I still have my copy of the book, and it is in pretty good condition. The quality of the paper it was printed on was very low; almost like construction paper. The edges of my pages are a bit yellowed but the middle of the pages is still good.
