The activation steps after PhotoFocus through the entire book, are basically nothing fancy. They're just normal reading of the material, but with questions in mind to draw out the most important information. The entire process allows you to build your comprehension in layers, which makes it good for saying 10 minutes = core ideas, 20 = 1st level of detail, etc.
What KWLee didn't tell you about, is some of the more amazing things that can happen later that LSC seems to emphasize a lot, often times misleading people. For instance, there's 'spontaneous activation,' which is when this information that you've already put into your other-than-conscious mind(or subconscious) comes up to your conscious awareness, but you're not sure how! This means that facts, details, theories, etc. from these books can pop up into your consciousness without any reading necessary. This is not what the entire course revolves around, and often times only happens every once and a while, but the more you practice, the faster you naturally become with PhotoReading.
Myself, I read almost a book a night. I'm beginning to be able to pull in vast amounts of information in just 40 minutes, often times with somethign like a 300 page book.
The reason it misleads people, is because they're expecting the course to be able to do this, or even beyond that, immediately! I'd say one of the main things that separates PhotoReading from normal speed reading, though, is how you naturally become faster with practice, and you don't even have to do any 'exercises' in between to keep yourself at a high rate of speed, like you often do with speed reading courses. With PhotoReading, you start out being three times faster than your original reading speed, and then work your way up more and more as time goes on, usually without even trying. 
So, there's the challenge of learning the system, and then the effortlessness of feeling it grow, expand, and be used in a new, awesome way.
Just a week nights ago, I experienced the first book I completely understood from cover to cover, in just 7 minutes. 
-youngprer
