Ask HN: What's a good book to learn electronics?

I own The Art of Electronics, but find it a bit theoretical.

I'll 2nd on Art of electronics

Art of Electronics is a very good book

the art of electronics is cool

Great book, sure, and very heavy on theory.

electronics only started to make sense after this book

the Art of Electronics is good stuff, with broad coverage

the ARRL handbook is even better

I've found "Electronics - Self Teaching Guide" by Harry Kybett to be a decent introduction

I also picked up "Embedded C Programming and the Atmel AVR" which is regularly recommended for the AVR platform.

there's the Feynman Lectures on Computation

Pong Chu's book "FPGA Prototyping by VHDL Examples--Xilinx Spartan-3 Version" is really excellent, with lots of well-explained projects.

I highly recommend "Making Things Talk", by Tom Igoe.

The Boy's Third Book of Radio and Electronics.

The Boys' First Book of Radio and Electronics.

The Boys' Fourth Book of Radio and Electronics; an introduction to solid state physics, semiconductors, and transistors

The Boys' Second Book of Radio and Electronics.