Ramon,
What if I don't do the photoreading step and I dip correctly by chance... will the book gel?...Most of my school books are so structured that I feel like I don't have to rely on my unconcious so much since I already know where to go in the text. If this is the case, what should I do?I know what you mean. Sometimes a book is structured in a way that you can skip stuff consciously and pick stuff consciously, since the book is laid out that way. I was reading this book on Chechnya, and I just went straight to the index, picked out what I needed and went there. Some books are just laid out that way.
My take is this: the PRing step takes such little time, but can save you time so that even if you skip sections, you can rapid read the ones you don't skip. If there's enough text, you'll more than make up for the time spent in the PR step by rapid reading.
-Ramon http://razor.ramon.com
