Rating: 
Summary: Needs a big internal facelift
Review: The authors' Preface clearly states that "over the years, we have learned that improved readability can be attained through general appearance of the text." Well what if I tell these authors that their publisher, Prentice Hall, still hasn't achieved their stated and important goal even after 8 editions of this textbook. They begin by poorly printing all the text's equations in the text jacket cover using horizontal format which is very difficult to read and locate a given equation. They should take a good look at a competing textbook by Floyd. Floyd does indeed achieve what these two authors intended goal: of making the appearance help the reader want to read the text but have yet to actually achieve it. Floyd also has more technical topics which Boylestad et al clearly have left out in their textbook. Boylestad is finally being dropped at my college after being criticized for some of the things I just mentioned above. Floyd is now being used. Students like Floyd's easy format and other easy to follow features.
Rating:
Summary: Needs a big internal facelift
Review: The authors' Preface clearly states that "over the years, we have learned that improved readability can be attained through general appearance of the text." Well what if I tell these authors that their publisher, Prentice Hall, still hasn't achieved their stated and important goal even after 8 editions of this textbook. They begin by poorly printing all the text's equations in the text jacket cover using horizontal format which is very difficult to read and locate a given equation. They should take a good look at a competing textbook by Floyd. Floyd does indeed achieve what these two authors intended goal: of making the appearance help the reader want to read the text but have yet to actually achieve it. Floyd also has more technical topics which Boylestad et al clearly have left out in their textbook. Boylestad is finally being dropped at my college after being criticized for some of the things I just mentioned above. Floyd is now being used. Students like Floyd's easy format and other easy to follow features.
Rating: 
Summary: Simplistic and Error Prone...
Review: This book has to be the worst book on electronics ever. I had to use this book for my second course in electronics and it was just too simplistic and not in-depth enough. The examples are very simplistic and the worst part of the book is the problems. The problems are basically identical in difficulty to the examples with the "numbers" changed around. One can not even read the book and solve all the problems by simply flipping back to the examples and copying them. And I haven't even mentioned the ton of errors in the book. Every other formula is wrong and the notion is very poor and ambigous. If you are getting this book to help you in a course, good luck... You better hope your prof. gives excellent lectures and take good notes.
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