I just got my Jinx CD. Of course the content is great. I'll give a review of the CD quality and features in a little while when I've had time to work with it.
landmark

Landmark, where did you buy this and how much did it cost (incl S&H)?
Thanks for the info.
Mike

You can find the CD at http://www.houdini.com .
In Genii magazine it is advertised at 19.95 dollars and 4 dollars for shipping and handling.

Thanks, remco de wolf.
I really appreciate the information.

Mike

The Jinx cd is readily available and most dealers should have it. Both of my favorite local (Boston) dealers carry it.

I got the CD and am printing the material out for reading. The material is great! Those who like magic must read this magazine.

Alex

This CD is a must have. I found in it a Val Evans effect still used by great names in Magic that kills everyone.

Does anyone have any ideas for printing this out versus perusing or searching for individual effects?

I wonder if anyone has taken this to a print shop for printing the entire CD Content?

I cannot sit here at my desk and view bits and pieces...I might miss some good ones based upon the title alone...I would love to be able to take the manuscript and go through it during my free moments in life?

Any suggestions?

Rey,
The Jinx is already available in 3 nicely bound volumes. It is available from YFD.
It is a MUST have for your library.
Ted (Leondo)

Please forgive me Leondo for my ignorance, but what is YFD?

I own the Jinx CD and have tried to scan through things I am interested in, but I would really like to go through the rest in a more comfortable setting than here at my desk...

Many thanks in advance....~rr

YFD = your favorite dealer.

Glad you didn't say your local dealer...I'll just leave it at that....Thanks again gents...~rr

The Jinx bound volumes are only about $20 each--sometimes even less, depending on where you get them.

I prefer having the bound volumes myself. There's advantages and disadvantages to both, but at the end of the day, I'd rather be reading these comfortably on my sofa than staring into a computer monitor.

Although I can't complain about the price--$16 from Daytona Magic, I find the Houdini CD somewhat annoying for several reasons:
1) On my computer, at least (a Mac iBook), I have to enter a password every time I access the file. Yes, even once I've copied it from the disk to the hard drive.
2) The format is a pdf. file that is locked and does not allow one to copy and paste to a word processor. This is a definite shortcoming.
3) The search function, while quick and easy, is not as useful as the search on the ebooks from lybrary.com. Those books actually let you search several books at one time if you want.
4) The print is difficult to read, it being a scan of the original, rather than an html file. The only way to read it on a laptop is to blow it up considerably. But this is, indeed tedious. So my solution has been to print it out. Unfortunately, on a Mac running OS X at least, printing out a pdf. file is a slow process, as it treats each page as a kind of graphic rather than text. (Rey Rey, you should be able to print this out by simply hitting the printer icon on the Acrobat Reader menu. No need for a print shop)

Okay enough griping.

Get this anyway. It's still an incredible value. It not only includes the three volumes of the Jinx but also includes at no extra cost the five Jinx programs. As a nice extra touch it has a list of effects that Michael Skinner chose as he was reading through the series.
You get great magic, and wonderful insight into the mind of one of the greats of mentalism, Ted Anneman. If you're a history buff you get a wonderful peek into the world of magic and New York City night life in the 30s. I definitely want to read a biography of Anneman after perusing this. What an interesting character!
Well that's it for now,
landmark

Oh, I should add that what I've decided to do, after reading the first ten issues, is this: from now on I'm just going to print out one issue every week, as if I were subscribing to the magazine. This way it will last me about three years!
We'll see if I'm strong enough to resist temptation!

landmark

re;
" I should add that what I've decided to do, after reading the first ten issues, is this: from now on I'm just going to print out one issue every week, as if I were subscribing to the magazine. This way it will last me about three years!"

lol. That's a great idea! You'll probably appreciate the material better than speed reading and suffering overload or simply dipping in here and there.

Good job you didn't get "The Gen", that ran for 23 years!

I feel with some of the larger magazine collections on CD, some people will not really read them all the way through.

I mean, 2 or 3 of these CD's and you don't need to buy any new books for a loooong time. Great value.

Paul.