Forums IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ PhotoReading, Memory Optimizer MY Take on photoreadin

sorry guys but at the end i dont think that photoreading works. Well i think that it is an excellent way for picking up bare facts, but it takes away the fun part of the book the meat of the va rious stories. To my understanding you should photoread as many books as you can to develope your intuition on the location of the valuable facts, but so far in my experience i feel i am losing the fun part of the books. The parts the i love reading.
does this make any sense?
any thoughts?

i know....

How come dana and the others dont always respond to people's answers. If they were PRing theyd have so much time to do whatever.

This stuff is farfetched!!!
They just want ur money!!!

Boylanpower,

Check the posts, you'll find that both Paul and Pete and others still regular read novels and other books for enjoyment. The technique they employ is to PR the book first and then regular read which is, after their learned skills with photoreading, faster and more in dept, they report themselves to be more absorbed by the books. I myself have noticed this that by PR reading the book I was still curious to know how much I really missed so I regular read it and I was surprised how much more I enjoyed it.

In some ways it may seem that they are not responding to post but they have aleady posted the information. Maybe they need to cut an paste their answers Just search their responses to various post. Gave me a better insight of PR and the fact that it isn't so much reading but a method of learning whats in the book.

Good luck
Alex

I still slow read, it is fun for fiction and stuff, but for dense stuff it works like a charm.

Trust me, the biggest problem that Iv ever had with PRing is the getting into the learning state, I have just now mastered it (took me long enough)

Im sorry you feel this way.

Picking up facts, and where the story leads is definitely what PRing is able to do. The one thing that it can't do is give you that vivid, in depth, and "meant-to-be" timeline imagery that normal reading can give. However, after mastering the PhotoReading system, you'll find that if you go back to your old habits, it's actually a lot more enjoyable and smoother.

I'm currently plowing through Lord of the Rings:The Two Towers, and have done a few activation passes, and am currently going through it sentance by sentance. Some tests that exist today unfortuanately are stupid. They ask questions that have absolutely nothig to do with the story, so you don't know which things to activate, and which to not. This forces me to go through the entire thing and not have to SuperRead.

You use the two (normal reading and PRing) for two different things.

I still use both on a regular basis. There ARE times where the entire text is important, and you don't wanna skip anything. A personal e-mail is one, a well-written column another.

While reading an e-mail from my friend who's studying abroad in England, I read slowly since what he's talking about is hardly as interesting as how he says it.

While reading CNN.com or newsweek, I PR and skitter.

Philosophy I rapid read (I know I said I switched to SR+D for philosophy, but changed my mind again...it's just a safer bet to rapid read that sucker).

How-to books I SR+Dip.

It's a system, and one that you can use it different ways or not use at all. Having that option saves you even more time when you know when.

-Ramon http://razor.ramon.com