I started with the Forrest Mims [1] Engineer's Mini-Notebooks from Radio Shack. They contain very little prose and lots of circuits you can build on a breadboar

I started with the Forrest Mims [1] Engineer's Mini-Notebooks from Radio Shack. They contain very little prose and lots of circuits you can build on a breadboard. https://hackaday.com/2017/01/18/forrest-mims-radio-shack-and-the-notebooks-that-launched-a-thousand-careers/ https://hackaday.com/2017/01/18/forrest-mims-radio-shack-and... My recommendation for a current book, that is affordable is "Practical Electronics for Inventors" by Paul Scherz