I know your handbook well, and regret appearing to be a salesmen for the Americans, but either book is a better starting point than any web information I have seen. Your point about sources of info causes me to recall the old days when I was just starting out in electronics and I had so many projects I wanted to try but just couldn't understand them all. From magazines like Popular Electronics I was always tempted by HiFi projects and radio circuits. We didn't have computers back than and maybe just as well too. Why, I even remember how to use a slide rule, although I gave my last one away years ago. So speaking of projects, I'm a bit mystified how someone could be so far along in their electronics training as some of these young pups are and not have an idea of what they want to build. Seems like putting the cart before the horse to me.