Maybe when you did it upside down you REALLY couldn't get your conscious mind involved. Maybe when you did it right side up your conscious mind kept seeing words and messing the whole thing up.
I haven't been able to PR novels yet either. I have a theory. I think if you truely WANT to go slow and enjoy it, then you just should. For instance, a friend loaned me the Gene Simmons "KISS and Make-Up" book and I was just going to PR it and give it back. So I PR it and I start skittering and I 'feel' like I'm not doing it right. I'm hitting on highlights of his life and career and stuff but I just had this 'bad' feeling that I couldn't explain. The bad feeling went away when I started to slow read it! I'm like "Hey, this is what I want." It was really weird. Their career started when I was BORN, reading about him is like reading about myself. When Gene talked about something I'd always be like "wow, I was 3 when he did that." I found myself reading extra-slow for some reason, not wanting the book to end.
Photoreading can't be for EVERYTHING.
If it was a book about U2 - I don't like or hate them but I have no interest in ever knowing anything about them- and I had to read it because I was going to interview them or something, you bet your *** I'd just PR it because I certainly don't want to enjoy it, I just want to "divide and conquer" my way thru it.
