I don't have the course, just the book but I did the
course 3 times and I think the book had more in it if
I remember correctly. I've heard others here say the
same thing.

"As a beginning PhotoReader, you won't recall much of
anything immediately after the PhotoReading step. You
may remember some key words and phrases from your
8-minute Preview, but that may be about it."

My concern was when I do this more and more over time
will I be able to consciously remember things that I
only Photoread or will I always have to go thru and
activate according the the steps in the book?

"-Craft Mind Probing questions with the key words and
phrases you wrote down during Preview
-SuperReading & Dip through the book cover-to-cover in
30-minute sessions, building one layer of conscious
comprehension with each pass, structure first and
increasingly more detail as you go.
-Add a set of branches on your Mind Map at the end of
each session."

When I do that I still only have a vague understanding
of the text. I don't know enough to carry me in
class. I still have to go back and Rapid Read
everything because I always miss something I need to
know. When I compare my level of comprehension when
doing the Photoreading steps to my level of
comprehension when I just Rapid Read without doing
anything else, I'm finding I get more from the Rapid
Reading step.

"Briefly explain how you are doing all 5 steps and
each technique. Include how much time you spend on
each part."

I just do what's in the book and it's the same as what
many of the posts here say to do so I know I'm not
doing anything wrong. I hope I am doing something
wrong though because if I can fix it then it will
work. If the book is right, then what I'm doing is
right because I'm doing the same things.


"As a rule of thumb, a book that would normally
require 10 hours for you to get through and comprehend
with regular-reading, a beginning PhotoReader will
spend 3 hours or less and achieve the same
comprehension with better retention and
understanding."

I can rapid read at 1000 words per minute with good
comprehension. So a 100,000 word book (about 200
pages) would take under 2 hours. I go slow over
what's important and speed up over what isn't. From
what I read on this forum you're supposed to activate
multiple times to get better comprehension but if I do
that I end up taking just as much time as if I just
rapid read the book to begin with. On my school
assignments I end up having to rapid read everything
anyway because of how many times in the past I've
missed stuff by Photoreading, Supereading and dipping.

For the time being I'm using the Photoreading steps as
my preview because all I have after doing it all is a
general idea of what it's about but to get the
specific ideas to make sense I have to read it all.
If I can get to the point to where I can do all the
steps including rapid reading in the same time that I
can just rapid read now, I'll be happy but for now I
don't see the time savings and I don't have good
enough comprehension unless I read it all. I'm
suspecting alot of people here are not reading the
whole books but just parts of them. I'm not reading
material that's just "4-11%" important. If I was I
could see the point of just superreading and dipping
but still then I wouldn't see the point of the
Photoreading step. A survey of just the table of
contents and glossary can get you to the "4-11%" of
the important things faster than any other way I know.
If a book is 200 pages long and has only 10%
important information, that's just 20 pages you'll
have to read and the table of contents shows where
everythings at. I'm just not seeing the advantage of
Photoreading but I want to because next semester my
reading is going to be double what it is now.

The steps in the book serve as an excellent way to study for tests after I've read it all in the first place and in that respect I'm happy with it. Multiple passes do help in remembering but I just can't get it to work the other way around.

I just want to know honestly if there are people that just can't do it, that will always have to read every word. I can read fast compared to everyone else I know and remember most of what I read and if going faster is going to lower comprehension maybe I should just be happy with what I got.

Is there anyone out there that can Photoread a 200 page book in 2 hours and rember most of it?