Welcome,
From your questions I am going to guess that you are using the German version of the PhotoReading book.
Point 7; During this activation pass you are looking for things that the authors agree on and where they have differing opinions. Make this an activation pass in itself spend about 5 minutes per book on rotation. This is to notice things you may not have focused on during point 5.
Point 3, You could prepare the mind map if you already have questions to record on it. However,when you are doing syntopical reading this is definately better to leave it for 24 hours before you actually start activating the books. It could even help if activate over a couple of days during the breaks your mind will ponder the subject.
Alex