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The book which cured my fear of spectral sequences is "Cohomology Operations and Applications in Homotopy Theory" by Moser and Tangora. It only touches applications in topology, and by todays standards it would be considered very basic; the upside of this is that a lot of the material is passed in the exercises (another upside is that it's $10 on Amazon).