[posterboy]

> Components are not ideal, but today, many of them, operated within their limits, are pretty close to ideal

Sure, but the bigger insight in the first place would be that all measurements have error tolerance. Which is a slightly different topic, so I'm not sure that it's the last book I'll ever need.

In particular reading on switch mode powersupplies it sounds like inductors, resonant circuits and electro magnetic interference are black magic. And this field developed a lot since the first book.