Just a quick note regarding a reading session that I had last night.
I have been reading Harry Fontayne and Jerry Lucas's "The Memory Book", which teaches a number of memory systems. Even though I photoread the book before working with it - this kind of material, where you are having to do one or two experiments and exercises every couple of pages and then you also have to memorize some basic memory system tools here and there, doesn't lend itself to a quick read if you want to get the most out of it. So I wouldn't call the pace that I have been going through the book even a rapid read - at least not in the areas where I have to stop and do exercises - which has been very often.
As I came across one specific chart I was struck by a strong sense of familiarity with this "new" information that could only be attributed to photoreading. Most of the material in the book is completely new to me. As I felt that sense of knowing the material flow over me I could feel it spreading out in each direction through the book - as if I had just surfaced from being under a dark ocean and could now breath and look around. What I was seeing was the consciously surfacing photoreading memory of the book.
[This message has been edited by livingsuccess (edited January 15, 2004).]
