Forums IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ PhotoReading, Memory Optimizer stating purpose for stories using photoread system

now first off, I haven't bought the program. I've been heavily considering it for a while. But for every positive thing said about photoreading comes a negative from someone else. Now, the most recent thing that's unsettled me about the system is the stage where you state a purpose. So, if you're reading an actual story, not a manual or another factual based book but one that deals with fictional characters and settings, how much of the story do you take away? I wouldn't want to photoread an entire book just to find out what colour dress Molly was wearing in one chapter. I'd want to know the entire story and understand the characters and events that make it up. My purpose for buying the photoreading course would be to help read more of the "fictional" books and works that I want to read but don't have the time or energy to with regular reading. So, is photoreading right for me?

sincerely,

tall_sided

You can still rapid read it if you wish.

I was never one to really use super read and dip for fiction, but I do use it to further explore various themes after my first, rapid read pass.

You can always be inventive with the purpose, too. I think on the tape, Scheele says someone was in a dentist's office, and photoread a book and stated the purpose, "I want to pass the time to avoid thinking about the inevitable drill."

I don't know what you would dip on, but it any case what I'm saying is that the purpose can almost be anything.

-Ramon http://razor.ramon.com

I tend to read fiction with purpose in mind. For example, Ender's Game for ethics, DUNE for ideas about what it means to be human, or Contact for a Pythagorean understanding of the nature of God. My girlfriend thinks I'm weird, but it does make some sense.

One suggestion, read fiction with the purpose of programming your dreams. Books often activate in dreams, since dreams are a way of moving information from short-term to long-term storage. You can view the process as it happens, and have a lot more fun than simply converting text into inner sound, and inner sound into meaning at the rate of 7 +/2 ideas at a time.