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Very good textbooks exist, e.g. [1-3], but operating a TEM is a dynamic process, where many things are much easier to understand by watching an image change as one parameter is continuously adjusted. For example, seeing a diffraction pattern evolving as a sample is tilted from zone axis to a systematic row condition, or watching the “structure” in an amorphous carbon film change as defocus is applied in the presence of astigmatism, is not the same as having a series of static images in a book. TEM lectures can instead be complemented by demonstrations at the microscope where the operator shows the application of principles that were explained before, but this is not done in the same room and requires investment of operator and instrument time.