Expert Card Technique: Close-up Table Magic (Dover Magic Books)

All the Dover Magic Books I've encountered are really well set up for Kindle and this one is no different. Plus, this is such a well-written classic that even if you never put any of the routines into practice or have your own pet sleights from other teachers or personal experience, merely thinking along with the methods as you read this book will make you a better cardician.

Goes from 0 to 60 at a very pleasant rate. Not only technique's are presented but suggestions to expand on them and make them your own. This is a book filled with wisdom, not only information. It will take you to the next level at your own pace

This is an excellent text, with extremely detailed instructions. I'm mostly a novice at this stuff, with a mostly academic interest, and not much yet especially dextrous with my hands, but even I found with dedicated reading, notwithstanding the tiny diagrams, the descriptions are so excellent that you _can_ get this stuff working, and working well. As you may have heard: you don't read this book casually: you read in detail, work slowly, and dedicate yourself to practising. Doing so, you can hardly help but getting somewhere, and potentially somewhere pretty impressive. These are solid techniques, from what my limited experience can tell, some demanding, some less so, and all entirely fascinating. The reason I can't give it five stars: the epub edition I have contains a fair level of typos and wonky paragraphs I just have to assume come from the same problem; I'm guessing they're mis-scans during optical character recognition missed in subsequent correction; obviously I can't tell quite how it happened at my end. In a very few places, it's bad enough you have to add a step to that careful reading: a forensic step of working out what it _must_ have said, supplemented in my case by grepping around the web, looking for people talking elsewhere about the sleights, toward said working out. Which is annoying. It's nice there even is an epub, obviously--I find it very convenient to read on my phone in moments of what would otherwise be downtime--but the errors do get in the way. That said, in fairness, there's only one or two such places it's such a significant problem. Usually, it's just more a stupid optical error, one character in a word you can work out from context, and since it's pretty obvious what was meant, fine, good enough. Still, it'd be nice to see a little more caution in preparing an epub people do pay for.

Great book for learning how to handle cards for doing magic tricks. Very well illustrated and explained so that anyone can practice and master the sleights, cuts, & shuffles needed to be a card expert.

Great book, tons of material, starts at the basics then works it's way up. If you want to avoid certain types of tricks then go ahead, there's plenty more

This is definitely worth picking up if you're looking for a book that will teach you a bunch of card techniques and flourishes.

Great book

This is an interesting book, not for the beginner. It's an interesting and historical book that would be best appreciated by the advanced, perhaps even scholarly, card handler. I'll save it for later - perhaps much later, but I want another go at it after I learn some basic skills.

The book meet my expectations.

Great book for learning from, I really like it

Außgezeichnetes Buch für den Beginner in Kartenmagie, ich empfehle jedem der sich für Kartenhandling interesseiert, sich dieses Buch zu kaufen und sich über Monate hinweg mit den Abläufen zu beschäftigen und diese zu perfektionieren. Mit dem gelernten und etwas Kreativität, lassen sich hiermit ganze Shows zusammenstellen. (Kleiner Hinweis: mit Büchern wie diesen kann man viel Geld sparen, da man bereits die meisten Bewegubgsabläufe die auf diversen Internetseiten verkauft werden kennenlernt) Für Fortgeschrittene ist dieses Buch jedoch nicht geeignet, da die Bewegungsabläufe (nur) die Basics sind

Ich beschäftige mich jetzt schon einige Jahre mit Close-Up Kartentricks und dieses Buch hat mir soo viel geholfen. Alles ist wirklich detailliert erklärt und sehr verständlich. Von mir eine eindeutige Kaufempfehlung, wenn genügend Englischkenntnisse vorhanden sind.

Amazing how knowledge of the past still applies for today. Forgotten wisdom bound in one Masterpiece just go for it