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Not many people will have experience with too many different texts but they might be familiar with a books reputation. Of course they can compare their experience with the text to a great textbook from another subject e.g. a Spivak in math or Knuth in CS.

Also I've self studied and am confused about the whole pure/applied distinction, do some books fall somewhere in between depending on the chapter?

I have Forest Mims's which is a cult classic, but is the size of a magazine. Also I have Foundations of analog & digital electronic circuits by Anant Agarwal which is quite good. I'm not aware of a Spivak/Knuth level text but I imagine there will be something like that out there but perhaps not as well known as those texts.

I can't vouch for its quality but if you want a free secondary resource, All About Circuits has some html books at https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/textbook/

The others comments about M&H have me curious.