I'd give it 3 stars, but then no one would read the review and my review wouldn't have actually helped.I would be happy to pay $5 for this.It would make a great white elephant gift to someone like myself.It has valuable information and some of it is quite enjoyable.HOWEVER, I don't feel like it lives up to either the title of "Do-It-Yourself Circuit Building" nor "For Dummies"...Instead, for $10 you could pick up "How to Diagnose and Fix Everything Electronic" here on Amazon (or BN) and perhaps pre-cursor that by watching "A simple guide to electronic components" by "bigclivedotcom" and some similar 101, tools, and soldering videos from "GreatScott!", "Mr Carlson's Lab", "Louis Rossmann" and "EEVBlog" on Youtube - especially when it comes to soldering you can learn 10x more (and 10x faster) by watching an experienced person position their hands and use their tools than a description in words can ever do justice.To me it seems to skip over important things - like how to read a schematic, which I would think is highly important to DIY Circuit Building as a general topic (and the dozens of schematics throughout the book) - but then spends literally 100 of the 372 pages on various cables and connectors. Again, very interesting info, but the balance of which topics get appropriate depth (and the order of them) is just way off.There's a weird mix of things like "Before tackling a schematic, you should become familiar with the symbols and conventions [...] which can be found online at [link to website]" on page 35 and then a few chapters later "If you're not familiar with how to read a schematic, refer to chapter 3".So instead of the "For Dummies" explanations I was hoping for, the would-be most interesting parts of the book ended up reading more like this:"Look, I took some pictures of me doing some really cool things and using highly technical words that you'll want to know too. If you don't already understand, you can Google the cool things or use the dictionary to look up words. You can access Google with your computer and your web browser - just click the AOL icon and type keyword 'google'. You can also find definitions in a dictionary. If you have a library in your town, try there. Who knows, you might just have one on your bookshelf."Which brings us to another virtue of alternatives: If you buy one of the "Make: Electronics" books, you can also buy the kit that has the things you need to actually do the cool stuff (though I haven't bought that one yet, it is on my list).Anyway, I don't think it's a bad buy for the information that you do get (well, maybe at full retail price today), but I do think it's disorganized and isn't a great book for the what the title would lead you to believe, and you could do much better with more modern books. Also, it seems as though even the latest edition was already quite a bit dated even back when it was published.If you do get it, read the first few chapters, skip ahead to Part IV, and read the rest of Part II later. Part III is all cables - interesting, but maybe not immediately useful as part of the subject matter. I almost gave the book a more positive review after finally reading Part IV, but now that I'm reading the first book I mentioned... not a chance. This dinosaur has to go.P.S. All due respect to the author. I appreciate your contribution. I love learning and I learned a lot, I just don't think the title fits the material and expectations.