For all of the doubting ones out there I can tell you that the photoreading step using the subconsious works, in subtle manners at first. I am a beginner PRer although I have finished the home course. I can tell you that the PR stage is completely viable by linking it to my somewhat recent take up of piano lessons. This past January I began to take lessons, inspired by Chopin, and now many other composers. I have had many months now to track my progress and methods whilst learning pieces of music. I can have a the music right in front of me and play it a couple times that day, and never think about it again. The amazing thing here, which proves the subconscious works, is that the next time I sit at the piano, I can play the music twice as good, and feel much more comfortable at it. Is this because I consciously thought about the piece, no, or that I poured over the music all night, no, I probably didn't even remember the name of the song if I didn't look at it. My point is, is that your brain works information out, granite, I have to spend a lot of time on harder songs, I have yet to reach the point to site read. But also I have yet to reach the point that I can photoread like Paul Sheele. Does this mean that I say that what he does is crap, no, all I have to do is click on my MP3s and hear some of those pianists playing some of the hardest music I have ever heard, if they can do it, in time, So can I.