In response to PRing not doing anything:
I don't preview. I just photoread, then activate. Plus I just got some spontaneous activation finally going, so I find it hard to believe that the PR step does nothing.
How much time are you guys spending on the preview step? If you're spending too much time, then yeah, the PR step wouldn't have made a difference because you'll have already spent too much time previewing it, in which case you just read it normally.
PRing lets you skip unimportant stuff. I don't know how you'd know what's important and what's not without the photoreading step. If you know where to go because you've spent that much time previewing, you've spent too much time previewing and are wasting time.
I've gotten through 200 page books in under an hour (not just the camping one now) and I don't think you can do that without the photoreading step, and just "guessing" where to dip.
Basically, if you can get the gist of the book without the PR step, you're probably taking longer, dipping in the wrong sections, or not getting as much comprehension as you should be getting.
Les, I like les pauls also. My dad has one at home with really nice sound and action to it.
-Ramon http://razor.ramon.com
