Could anyone point me in the direction of some good memory books i.e. methods and such?

One of the best: Harry Lorayne's - The Memory Book, available from Amazon.

Franklin - The Paranormalist

I second Franklin's word.

It's also inexpensive and a useful tool - both in magic and everyday life.


Kindest Regards,
-George Tait

Books and Kits:
The Memory Book
How to Develop a Super-Power Memory
Learn to Remember
The Memory Pack

Websites:
The World Wide Brain Club (check out the SEM Cubed Technique!)
Memory Master
New Numbers.net
Accelerated Learning
Be A Genius* (*...or, just look like one)
The Memory Page
Astonishment Site: Memory & Magic
Tony Andruzzi's Magazine Memory Act
Mind Tools: Memory Techniques and Mnemonics
Total Recall

You could also try the Memletics Accelerated Learning System, available at http://www.memletics.com/default.asp?ref=550100.

This thread should be in the "inner" area rathter than exposed for the general public.

All the sites and books that were listed are freely available to anyone who is interested in these topics. If someone is searching for "memory improvement", they'll find almost all these resources before they find this thread listed on Google.

What is this inner circle, anyway? I've been performing magic for 18 years, mentalism for 1 year. How do I get access to this inner circle? I think I protect and develop the art much enough to have a place there.

It is another forum regarding mentalism located in the secrets area. If you have read the rules of the Café, you will find that fifty relevant posts will open this area up for you.

A relevant post is one that actively adds to the topic. Greetings and general comments will be deleted from post counts so make sure you don't count these.

In the secrets area, discussion on methods is allowed (with certain restrictions), so take a moment to investigate the rules and expectations. This is a great forum, I am sure you will enjoy.

The Memory Page is a great online resource:

http://www.thememorypage.net/

Thank you for the clarification Frank! (realizing this post wont count)

/håkan

I purchased Harry Lorayne's Super memory power book and cassettes on E-bay.

I also have a computer based program based on the same material from http://www.leadersoft.com

I use Kevin Trudeau's Mega Memory System. For me it took the ideas of mnemonic systems to "the next level" of usability.

Cheers,

Tom

I'd recommend anything by Dominic O'Brien. He's won the world memory championship more times than anyone else, and I think his methods are better than Lorayne's and his books are better written.

Having read memory books by both Harry Lorayne and Dominic O'Brien I feel that niether author is superior to the other in any way.

As always I've found that it's best for me to read as much as possible on a certain subject and then find my own method by experimenting with the concepts that I've read about.

Socrates

'We are born unarmed, our mind is our only weapon' - Ayn Rand

Hi
Do any of you have any suggestions on books on mnemo techniques not that orientated or attached to just the English language?
Most of the systems I have seen, use English tags. That's fine, but it's a bit complicated to think in English and remember in Norwegian, if you get my point?

Many years ago, I owned a book by Tony Buzan translated into Norwegian, but I actually forgot where I put it (That much for mnemonics, eh? )

Any advices would be higly appreciated

Regards
Sven