X Protocol Reference Manual: Volume 0 for XII, Release 6 Book

This was the best book about electronics I've read so far. It is also the only book I've successfully gotten through, so I guess there's not much of a comparison, but that in itself is an important fact. Everything was presented very clearly, with a slow progression into more and more complicated topics, so I was able to understand much more from this than I have from books in the past, and I wasn't intimidated. I definitely don't get ALL of it, but a vast quantity of information is now in my head that wasn't before, which is great! I feel much more confident in pursuing my own projects after this.

A couple caveats to my great review, which is why this is 4 stars not 5. The first is due to my own experience - a good chunk of this book was dedicated to learning programming of a few types of microcontrollers. While useful, I knew 90% of this already just because I know a fair amount of code. That's not the book's fault.

The other one, though, is bad. There were.... a lot of typos in this book, errors in the listed numbers or specifications that they listed. I actually found it kind of cool, that I was able to recognize these and understand what they should be (honestly it probably helped solidify my knowledge) but it was still a bit much for something that was supposed to be teaching me. For the most part, though, I got through and understood what he was trying to say.

And, the last section was a lot about very particular projects. I get that this was showing us what was possible, but I didn't need quite as much detail I don't think.

Oh, final note that doesn't affect the review - I really don't understand the whole "9 minibooks with individual chapters" thing.... Just make it one book with more chapters? That's how I read it but I guess you wouldn't necessarily do it that way. Eh.