This video is a magic tutorial by Cavan Booth explaining a mind-reading trick using any book, any page, without any forces or gimmicks. The method involves discreetly using a phone to look up the chosen word, disguised as setting a timer, and then performing the revelation. Booth also promotes his book, "The Honest Psychic," and his magic membership club.
Based on the transcript, the speaker, Cavan Booth, explains that the core method can be applied to just one book that you own. He demonstrates this by showing an index of words from the last word of each page of a single book on his phone.
However, he also mentions an advanced application of the trick:
"you have to say look at the last word except you don't you can say look at the longest word this is where a little bit of ambiguity comes in but it is okay because all you do is you go through every single page and you look at the longest word that stands out... i can write down all of the options on my notes app i can literally put hospitals / restrooms / laboratories i can put all of the potential options of words that they might have looked at"
And later:
"you can index literally hundreds of books in your notes app and then have a bookcase full of all of these indexed books you can have the spectator pick any book from the shelf turn to any page and then in your notes app you simply find the corresponding note for that book find the page and then obviously find the word"
So, while the trick can be done with a single book, the potential for using multiple books is presented as a way to enhance the performance and make it even more impressive.
The trick is a mind-reading effect where a spectator chooses any book, turns to any page, and looks at a word. The magician then reveals the word the spectator is thinking of, without touching the book or using any forces or gimmicks.
Here's how it works, according to the transcript:
The key elements are:
