When I was a teenager I got https://www.amazon.com/Basic-electronics-theory-projects-exp... which was great. In my 20s, I kept checking out "The Art of Electronics" which was fantastic, and I seemed to be the only one who ever checked the book out of my local library.
Similar story here. In my hometown the library there had a great collection of technical books in general but electronics in particular, that was better than the books my Uni had, which was in a town 20 times more populous and a center of development. And yeah, on the rooster for those books only my name was there as I kept checked them out multiple times during my high school and later as a student at Uni.
