The Art of Electronics was originally written for science (physics) students who intend to become experimentalists. Experimentalists traditionally build their

The Art of Electronics was originally written for science (physics) students who intend to become experimentalists. Experimentalists traditionally build their own instruments - i.e. if you can just buy something to do a measurement, why should you get funding? You should be advancing the state of the art. AoE is at the level of "you might have to do just about anything with an op amp that's possible with an op amp, but you won't be designing op amps". Yeah, that's a little hardcore for hobbyists, but just about everything you might need is in there somewhere, or at least you'll learn what the thing you need is called.