Re-kindling my interest in magic
Slowly but surely my hard drives have filled up with PDFs. E-books, articles, downloads, all sorts.
And I don't read them on the big screen that much...especially books (I can manage an article).
So I invested in a Kindle (I've been watching their development for a while) and not so much for buying from Amazon (although that may happen occasionally) but to upload all my PDFs (and most of them are magic related) so I can get through them on the bus, etc. The screen is not back-lit, so it works like paper on the eyes (you need light to read in bed, and the cover contains a little pop-out light).
Currently enjoying The Pageboy Speaks, which I got from Lybrary as a PDF. These columns from Pabular seem really evocative, even though I was never a regular reader, or even a good or serious magician (I used close-up to supplement my juggling/clowning stuff).
Still, I met Pat Page on several occasions in Davenports, and although he could be a wind-up, he was a great performer and salesman. Some of the stuff he mentions sparks memories of my times in the magic club of my youth (when I did take it pretty seriously) like seeing presentations to the club by Ron McMillan, or David Berglas, etc. And I saw a lot of live acts, good, bad and indifferent. These are the days before video and DVD, so if you caught something on tv you were lucky!
