I tried doing it without the photoreading step and it is a lot harder. I think it's the difference between driving somewhere you've been to before and driving to a totally new destination using a new route. With PR you get that gee I been here before feeling and can move swiftly through a text. Taking in whole pages in a glance, without it forget it. I don't understand people's resistance to the pr step it takes a few minutes to perform. The key is to stay aware of internal ques to what to read.
As for asking a 100 people, why bother, in my experience 95 out of a 100 people resist any change. The ones to talk to are the ones that say that's interesting tell me more... Remember the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Copernicus and Darwin were majorities of one. Be part of that majority.
