Good thinking - or an accompanying CD-ROM/DVD.

IE Versitale Card Magic, by Frank Simon.

Full Metal Jacket from JC Wagner and myself (online clips of essential moves taught throughout the text)... www.meandjc.com

Or, Gaft Card Magic, also from myself (Booklet with performance DVD)

S.Segal

Good for you! It really seems the way to go, Syd. You get the best of both worlds.

Yup, two items HIGHLY worth getting

- Lapping.

Bokks contain more knowledge, and cost less. also, since every 12 year old has a dvd out now, a book is where you find those hidden gems you will always use.

IT all depends on how you learn better. Books have much more information and are cheaper, no doubt about it . But some people learn better from DVDs/Videos than they do with books. Everyone knows that everybody is different, and us being different we all LEARN differently. Some of us, learn better with just audio, some with just video, or some with just plain text . It all depends on YOU. I personaly like books, because they have more info, tricks, sleights ect. But DVDs arent bad either, you can get a much more detailed description on how to preform it because you can actually SEE it being preformed. And someone posted earlier that XCM would be extremely hard if it was just in a book, and not on a Video that you can watch.
Skyman
(Thats my Epilogue for your essay Pookie )