Sounds a like like somthing I saw on TV a few weeks ago too. I started a topic on it - here's the link:
http://www.learningstrategies.com/forum/ubb/Forum8/HTML/001078.html As for the telephone book memorisation thing, I listened to a course by Brian Tracy called "Accelerated Learning" and he refers to a guy with an average memory who learned the LA telephone directory by heart. I think it took him four years, altough I don't think he was using photoreading.
