They say you Photoread a book in 5 minutes. A significant difference because photoreading is putting your book into your inner mind where it is more accessible. Its becomes facinating discovering how much you know from a book without having read it word for word with the conscious mind.
When you photoread you miss even less than what you do with regular reading. It goes in and because it takes such a short amount of time to go in it is easier to stay with than regular reading.
You would photoread a dictionary more often if you want to become familar with some definitions. However the practical aspect of it is you usually don't know until you use it and often you don't realise you didn't know the definition before you photoread the dictionary. For the sake of the game you think of a word and try to guess its location. It's a game. Just photoreading language dictionaries, dictionaries word and grammar books does improve your skills in using them. It is happens without seeming effort so it feels like you didn't really learn anything. Its a case of knowing something but not knowing how you know.
If you only wanted to 'read' just 3 chapters. You would still photoread the whole book (it only takes 2 to 1o minutes afterall). This gives your inner mind information that often helps make sense of the chapters. The you would only activate those 3 chapters. You take as much time as you need. Textbooks can require as much as 50 hours of regular reading to gain satisfactory comprehension/understanding. With photoreading it would only take 10 hour and this migh mean 20 minutes a chapter.
Short answer is yes. That's the whole principle of photoreading... get out of the book exactly what you want/need and call it quits sooner.
Alex
