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Not a beautiful looking book, but a handsome and useful one.
Saying "good-bye" to my wonderfully and beautifully illustrated Calculus(Ron Larson)textbook and having to say "hello" to this plain and terribly boring-looking black and white book (absolutely no other colors, refering to the paperback copy), initially I found the text to be very dry and I thought it was going to be a good sleep aid. But after some weeks of studying I fall in love with it.
For each kind of d.e. it supplies more methods than some other books on the same subject. It introduces theorems that I do not see in other books, for example, the convolution theorem. The author at times, depite his plain and dry disguise, tells you how a math idea was formulated and tries to guess how the discoverer was thinking when originally working on the problems. If you read closely you will find the author can be witty too. It also has good exercises expecially in the B and C section. There are a lot of wonderfully catogerized applied problems.
This may be an old fashion book, but I have found a lot of value in it. I wish the publisher will make a new edition of the book with dressed up colors and better paper (The cover of the paperback 3rd edition is too thin and too weak to be a good cover).

Excellent Introductory Text on ODEs
This was the required text when I took differential equations back in the early 80s. As a sophomore engineering student, I found the book to be easy to read and easy to learn from. It is especially nice that the book has very few errors/typos in it. I have gone back to this book many times in the intervening years (in graduate school and beyond) and I continue to go back to it as an excellent reference. In fact, the copy that I purchased back in 1982 is starting to come apart and I was happy to see that it is still available.

I am currently an engineering professor and I teach an applied mathematics course to senior level honors students. I find that I frequently go back to Spiegel's book for examples and explanations that I can present to my class when I am covering differential equations. This is still one of the best introductory texts on differential equations that I have come across.