We’ll have an extra post for you coming over the next week, and it is a doozy. Ironically, it also ideally won’t be of much use to anyone but professionals. But, we felt someone had to do this, and it was expensive as hell, so you’ll have to make do.

Speaking of expensive things, Brian Brushwood’s book tests, featuring authentic copies of The Shining, The Da Vinci Code and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, are 50% off if you buy the whole set and 25% off individually at scamstuff.com. This isn’t a sponsored message obviously, I just like the book tests, and it’s the best deal I’ve seen this Black Friday.

Something I like to do is have them pick a hardcover book from a bookshelf, not counting the magic books on the lower shelves since those would obviously be tricky. The only books on the upper shelves that are hardcover, besides smaller less appealing ones without dust jackets, are his book tests which are seemingly unrelated popular books. I haven’t purchased Harry Potter because the books on this shelf do not fit a random volume 4 of an outdated children’s series, and barely allow for Da Vinci, but it costs the same to buy the full set or just two books right now, so you’ll have to make that choice for yourself if you go for it and are also only interested in two of them.

As I talked about in Odds and Ends #1, there’s a whole world of collectible card magic out there, ripe for the taking, that I have no interest in. It seems Penguin Magic does on the other hand, as they’ve started selling the gimmicked collectible card sleeves from Uncommon by Josh Burch on their own.

We may bring back the email subscription option. We’ve collected a fair few RSS subscribers, but most people don’t use RSS anymore, and I suppose it would be good to have the option available if people want to be spammed.