Learn PhotoReading first on a book in the non fiction range first non techical book.
You didn't answer my specific questions. I need to know what "you" are doing not in word that the book says you are doing.
What are you doing for activation?
i.e which techniques have you used?
How many activation passes have you made on the book?
your reply should contain a number
How long do you allow for your activation pass?
Your reply contain an answer that relates to time
Have you tried mind mapping after each activation pass (this is a great aid for memory and recall)
So have you?
Have you applied the 5 day test on any books.
Have you?
How much time have you spent with the PhotoReading system so far
if you just got the book I doubt your total time would be a month... so in total how many hours have you applied?
Preview, postview are part of the activation process, PhotoRead takes 2 to 5 minutes. I've not known anyone to read a book without previewing... so you do that for traditional reading as well and they don't count the time. If you're spending more than 12 minutes postviewing, your spending too much time and are in fact passively reading not postviewing.
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I thought 3 hour is the total amount of time I should spend on the book, including preview and photoread, so activation must be shorter.
Each book is different... no one is ever certain how long a book will take them for traditional reading. In a survey I've had people admit to me that the PhotoReading book would take them 12 hours to read. the greater number of responses for that book was 8 hours, 9 hours and 12 hours.
Based on average reading speeds and the number average of words a book of the longest that book should take a person with a reading speed of 190 word per minute is 6 hour. So those short reading test don't really give you an accurate picture. A person who struggles for 12 hours with a book would be impressed if they managed to get it done in 6 hours and that can be achieve by maintaining the average reading speed.
That 3 hours includes mind mapping something one would never do with traditional reading...so you're going to nitpick 15 minutes?
Alex
[This message has been edited by Alex K. Viefhaus (edited July 22, 2004).]
