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This isn't exactly what you've requested, but it's still a very good basic electronics guide - Make: Electronics http://www.amazon.com/Make-Electronics-Discovery-Charles-Platt/dp/0596153740/ http://www.amazon.com/Make-Electronics-Discovery-Charles-Pla... Part of the book is breaking things to see how they work which is much cooler than thinking of things as a black box.