Forums IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ PhotoReading, Memory Optimizer Photoreading novels

Hello, I am having trouble photoreading fiction. After previewing, I cannot develop a solid organizational chart, nor can I cojure up a purpose besides: "I would like to know about ________'s adventures," or someting along those lines. Anyway, afterwords I attempt to photoread the book. This too, dosn't seem to work because I cannot understand anything. Later when I super read the book another time I still don't understand the plot, sturcture or the main characters. What should I do?

For leisure reading or pleaure reading, PhotoRead then Reapid read.

For literary critique you focus on, theme, plot, message,era etc in successive superread and dips. In which case you would also create a mind map.

"Would like" ... implies that it's okay if you don't find it.

Make sure you have specific questions... the character may not be having an adventure so much as a misadventure ... your mind can be very literal so a better question might be what is going on with X character, Why is this happening to X, How does X solve or get out of this? Where is this leading X.

Alex

So I tried Alex's suggestion of rapid reading after photoreading for Harry Potter ( ). I have read few novels since becoming more proficient with PR because I have only started using the system consistently this year, when I was only able to apply it to school books.

I photoread the book and was amazed at how much faster it was then when I used to read. The writing flowed well, but I also had that experience with other Potter books, I have yet to try Rapid Reading only on other novels.

Overall - I didn't reduce my time to 1/3 of what it would normally have taken. I felt stuck because I read almost all of the sentences (even if quickly) instead of super-reading and getting the gelling feeling.

I was just wondering if there's something more I can do to reduce the time because while it is enjoyable to read novels, I still want to get through more than I used to.

[This message has been edited by ked (edited June 21, 2004).]

Take regular breaks after 30 minutes of rapid reading get up and move away from the book for 5 minutes. One of the things that slows us down is that we've been at it too long without a break.

Also one novel... for pleasure reading, well if you want to get better at it and faster at it tackle more novels. Beware that pleasure reading sucks us in to slower reading and that's fine if we seek that however we tend to get the reading done in the time we have available best if we know we only have a certain period of time to finish so another way to push your reading and not get stuck on every word is set a stopping time and stoping point.

Alex