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Originally posted by photojoe:
Hi Everyone,I have just recently come across the term photoreading.
I just have a couple of questions to start.
1. Does it really make any significant difference in reading speed? In other words does it work given an opportunity to actually practice it for a given period of time?
Photoreading makes a significant difference to the speed at which you pull out the important information from a book. You can have the same and often better comprehension of the text in 1/3 or even 1/5 the time it takes you to regular read a book.
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2. How does it differ from the various forms of speed reading?
Dana posted the answer to that question on this thread
http://www.learningstrategies.com/forum/ubb/Forum8/HTML/003048.html
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Why buy the entire course if everything is given in the photoreading book?Thanks for the replies in advance.
The course has the exercises with coaching for you to work with. It is a logical order for learning the system fast, has the books (for learning with) and material for exercises so that, when you work with the tapes once through you know you have a working grasp of photoreading. When you use the book alone you need to devise your own exercises. Also the tapes have a motivational aspect, since if you are doing the exercises as you listen you know that you only have x number of tapes to complete the course. Reading the book alone doesn't give you the assurance that you are going to get it and when you will have done enough to say that you have a working understanding of the system. Simply with the book it takes longer to learn and it's difficult to know where you are up to in learning to excel in photoreading.
Alex
[This message has been edited by AlexK (edited January 19, 2003).]