This was my university calculus textbook and I liked it well enough. Granted, I was learning with the assistance of lectures to teach me the concepts too so I d

This was my university calculus textbook and I liked it well enough. Granted, I was learning with the assistance of lectures to teach me the concepts too so I don't know how you'd fare with only this textbook, but I liked it well enough to drop coin on a physical copy. My philosophy with textbooks was to buy only ones I felt I'd go back to after uni - basic references in each major field I studied - and this was reasonable for me for calculus. My only regret was shelling out for new copies because I was young and stupid and thought I needed them right now for the class, before I knew better. You can certainly pick up cheap second-hand copies per the parent post. I also used Kreyzig too but found that to be a bit harder to learn from, albeit more in depth.