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• Ebook Reading Devices:
  Sony Reader, Kindle, Nook, Que, iPad, iLiad, ...
• Business Card Strategies
• The Learned Pig Project: TLPP
• Erdnase/Gallaway Cover Comparison
• Looking for Books with Edward Gallaway Bookplate
• Magic Map

Ebook Reading Devices:
Sony Reader, Kindle, Nook, Que, iPad, iLiad, ...

Which Ebook Reader Should It Be?

Executive Summary

• Best Purchase: SonyReader PRS-600 If you can't wait any longer and want an ebook reader get the SonyReader PRS-600.
• Best Purchase for Academic Article Reading: Kindle DX Although I don't like the Kindle because it locks you into buying ebooks from Amazon, if you mainly buy it to read academic articles, then the Kindle DX is a fair choice. Academic articles typically come as unsecured...

Business Card Strategies

Over the years I had a couple of pretty lame business cards. You know the kind that your employer issues to you or the ones you print out yourself after an hour of fiddling around with a graphics software. During the last years I did not have a business card. While I am not great at handing out my business card, I do get occasionally asked if I have one, and then I am embarrassed that I don't have one. The most recent such incidence prompted me to get a business card made. But I did not want to...

The Learned Pig Project: TLPP

The Learned Pig Project was started in September 1999 by Marko from Panama. Marko's idea was essentially to mimic the Project Gutenberg for magicians. Project Gutenberg's purpose is to digitize public domain books. The Learned Pig Project's goal is to digitize public domain magic books. When Marko started he had four books digitized: My Magic Life (Devant), Miracle Mongers (Houdini), The Lives of the Conjurers (Frost) and Behind the Scenes with the Mediums (Abbott). He would later add dozens more. In...

Erdnase/Gallaway Cover Comparison

I am firmly convinced that Edward Gallaway is S. W. Erdnase. One of many reasons are the surprising similarities between the books Gallaway published later in his life and The Expert at the Card Table. Dr. John Olsson prepared a detailed forensic linguistic analysis comparing Erdnase with Gallaway concluding a strong possibility that Gallaway is Erdnase. Beyond the linguistic match there are several other aspects that are matching, too.

• Erdnase and Gallaway self-published their books.
• Both had their copyrights registered...

Looking for Books with Edward Gallaway Bookplate

I am trying to assemble a list of books which have the Edward Gallaway bookplate, shown below, in them.

If you have any information on books with this bookplate please email me at wasshuber@lybrary.com. The books we have found so far are:

1. The Expert at the Card Table by S. W. Erdnase (1902)
2. The History of the Works of the Learned (1700)
3. The History of the Works of the Learned (1705)

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Magic Map

I am sure many of you traveled to unfamiliar locations asking: "Where can I find here some magic shops, venues, and other magic sites of interest?" My answer to that question is the Magic Locator service. This is a custom Google map. Type an address into the search box and you will see a map where points of interests for magicians are marked. These are:

• Magic Shops
• Shows
• Lectures
• Conventions
• Historic Sites
• Magic Attractions (this is the catch all category if no other category is better) ...