"Superreading and Dipping is essentially useless and leads to gathering tons of partial ideas or a basic summary at best. Nothing falls into place till I Rapid Read."
A couple questions:
1) What kind of texts are you reading? For some texts, rapid reading is indeed the best solution, although if you get creative you can still substitute with SR+D.
2) How many passes are you doing with SR+D? If you feel you still don't have the gist of the text, you simply need more passes. This may seem slow at first, but with practice (after doing the PRing step, more on that later) your other than conscious mind and conscious mind will work together better, picking out more relevant and essential parts of the text.
3) How relaxed are you while PRing? You sound a little stressed the system isn't working, which is understandable, but if you bring that stress into the PR step, your other than conscious mind will be filling with, "This can't work, this doesn't work, I've been trying forever and can't get this to work" instead of filling with the material you're trying to absorb at a relaxed pace.
I hope you stick with it. Once you get it to work there's no going back. =)
-Ramon http://razor.ramon.com
