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Any one with this willing to write a review of it?

Available from International Magic

This has been with most dealers for years and years and years. It's just a matter of which card indexes are the best for a performer. Do check out Card Collection (Clive Leewarden) for the ones designed by Pat Page based on the original Corinda ones.(£8:50), (Myles Sinclair of Magical Wonders does the same set at £7:50) and the American Dave Powell (£12) which comes with '48 plastic index pieces' & booklet.Then there's Ken de Courcy's 10 page booklet, Calling All Cards (£3:50) for ideas, gags etc.
I personally like Al Koran's 20 Card Memory. No fekes, just a LITTLE memory and a pack of cards.. The magician goes into the audience and 20 people, FREELY, take a card each. He gives them a number 1 to 20 which they have to remember as well as the card. The entire pack, including the chosen cards is placed in the right trouser pocket. Performer is blindfolded (just for effect). He calls out RANDOM numbers, which relate to the chosen cards. As he does he reaches into the pocket and produces a card. The spectator with that number calls out his card. The selected one is turned and it is indeed the card. Swiftly the others are dealt with., sometimes BEFORE the spectator has named it. Finally the magician holds up 2 cards. "I've found 18.Now the last 2". He calls the 2 numbers, turns the cards, whips off the blindfold with his other hand. What a picture finish. Hands held level with the head, one with th 2 cards, the other with the blindfold dangling. Applause. Applause. Applause. The system is very easy. Look up Al Koran's Legacy by Hugh Miller, pages 29 to 33. (£15) These are all great Koran routines, Cabaret and Closeup. All worn in over many, many professional performances.
Allen Tipton

Thanks for the info.

Cardza. You could also check out George Blake's Pro Card Index System.They fit comfortably into the jacket or trouser pockets,and with practice give you spped and certainty.They are obtainable at £10 with routines, from Eddie Burke in Stoke on Trent. George Blake, if you didn't know was a much respected semi-pro magician, inventor author from the North of England.he wrote many articles, routines and tricks for Supreme's Magigram and Abra and for a time edited The Budget( mag of The British Ring) He died in 1979. A delightful and quiet man I met in my teens. Somewhere i have a tape of one of his lectures.
Eddie Burke owns the rights of a number of his very practical routines.
Allen Tipton

Thanks again for the info, I shall look in to it.