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This will be a long answer. I am a clergyman and I read voluminously in varied fields: science, philosophy, history, humor and of course theology. The techniques taught here are not to be classified in the traditional sense of reading. You learn an approach to preparation and fast scanning and surveying any print material that is effective. They also teach a method for "soft" viewing that is effective with PRACTICE. It seems impossible but with practice it does work in an interesting way that you "know" material you never read in the traditional sense. Now, I would not recommend this to a student who needs to study literature or if you wish to read for enjoyment of phrasing as in Shakespeare's work. However, to read material to get the basic ideas, or if you have specific information that you seek in a particular piece of printed matter this method is effective. (My wife who is a Psychologist and was an English major in undergraduate work is more than skeptical toward this method.) My other advice is to look for other people who have bought the course on ebay and ask them their opinion.
Good luck.
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Is this gentleman correct in his assessment?

Regards

Go Pats

While he wouldn't recommend it to a student of literature or reading for enjoyment of phrasing Shakespeare's work. I personally think it can be used successfully by someone with those goals in mind. Since you are more likely to spend more time with a book with those goals while regular reading them than you would for other books. You would also spend a bit more time photoreading those books than you would spend photoreading other books.

In other words it would be unrealistic to expect to photoread a book of literature or Shakespeare where you would spend 50 to 100 with the book by regular reading and then expect to gain full conscious knowledge of those books in 30 minutes. It would be more reasonable to expect to gain suffient knowledge in 25 hours

Alex