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I too recently bought Bobo. If anything, I quite liked the look of the hardback dust jacket version, which has additional sections according to the blurb. However, it is not a pleasurable learning process, I have to say. Maybe it's because I'm so comfortable with cards and holding a deck in my hands gives me an enormous sense of wellbeing, but for the life of me my Bobo journey is arduous.

It mainly feels arduous as I am daunted in knowing that it took me a good 1 year to be a competent card worker, and that was - for the early stages - being obsessed with those 52 pasteboards, practising and thinking about it, in front of the TV, in front of the mirror.

I ENJOYED the learning process, whereas I have a nagging feeling that like RRTCM to really get the full whack out of Bobo, it's best to read it cover to cover, as otherwise it will just be a disparate agglomeration of diagrams and text. I also agree that it's not a book you can read leisurely in a non-committed way as you could with a mentalism book. I feel that you have to get that coin to hand, or else you feel you don't absorb. If there was an easy option to sleep with Bobo under your pillow and wake up with knowledge and muscle memory overnight, I would happily pay good money for that.

You probably need to study Bobo by using the excellent study guide of Opie Houston from Texas. I think he has been a member of this forum at some time. Otherwise do a search for "bobo study guide" and his name and it may show up.

Thanks Reverend.

I'll reopen Monseuir Beauxbeaux's text after concentrating on other aspects of magic: dotting the Is and crossing the Ts. Once dotted and crossed I can focus on coin magic.