Forums IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ PhotoReading, Memory Optimizer Page Format and the Speed

Does page format (A5 or A4) matter when it comes to the speed of PhotoReading (the step of PhotoReading itself)? Does bigger page format require more time to be spent on it, or is this completely irrelevant as the other-then-conscious mind anyway operates at tremendeous speeds?

I am at the tape 4 of the course, perhaps didn't reach or omitted answer to that.

Another question of mine is also related to the speed of PhotoReading step within the process. I find slightly faster pace of turning pages more comfortable then the one presented by Paul Scheele with Re-lax, Re-lax, 4,3,2,1... method. I turn 100 or more pages per minute. Would that be fine? Is it OK to photoread A4 format pages with this speed.

Sure I understand that my subjective aspect plays role here. Aware of that, still would like to have more comments on those two questions.

Thank you everybody!

Cheers,

Irfus

P.S. all the compliments to the creators of the course, from this what I already went through, it's master peace for home study and really well crafted. It's pleasure going through the personal course which answers questions just I raise them for myself.

The rule of the thumb for the pages is as fast as you comfortably turn them in a comforatable rhythm, not turning it into a race and not dawdling to read. A4 pages are going to take a slip longer than A5 by default. The pages have a greater arch to travel from one side to the other. You'll find that even with books of the same size your speed can vary because of the quality of the paper.

Alex

Thanks for answer.

By the way, in the "Whole Mind System" book if find word spelled "syntopic". Is this a typo for "synoptic", which one would conclude according to the context? It is written in the whole book same that way, as far as I noticed. Webster's Dictionary doesn't know about "syntopic" neither.

Regards,

Irfus

No, it's not a typo. It was coined many years ago. It's not well known because it relates to an objective of reading.

Syn is a prefix meaning, with together, or alike.

Synoptic is
1. Of or constituting a synopsis; presenting a summary of the principal parts or a general view of the whole.

2. Taking the same point of view.

(source; Dictionary.com)

It is, collecting together all sources that agree.

Syntopic is drawing out the differnt arguments of the same topic.

In syntopic reading we're not looking agreement, we're looking for what each author thinks and expecially differences of option so that we can draw out our own conclusions from our thinking.

Alex

[This message has been edited by Alex K. Viefhaus (edited April 07, 2005).]