Analytical reading should actually be the last stage of reading however the school system has taught us to read in a fashion that this is often the first stage for reading and often it is unnecessary for our needs.
Analytical reading has a reading speed of about 90 to 120 words a minute. As the name decribes it is for analysing what the author is saying.
One should not start analysing until one has had a good overview of what the author has to say overall. This comes with the whole to parts approach with the PhotoReading Whole Mind System. We take in the whole and then burrow down to the details as far as we need them through activation.
In traditional reading, a book that you apply analytical reading to would take considerably longer than just straight traditonal reading.
Using the PhotoReading System for a very detailed read we use our mind probing questions (an important tool for analytical reading also) to focus on getting the details we seek. This is often why we wind up with better comprehension over traditional reading and yet spend less time with the book.
If you apply PhotoReading you would still spend less time with the book than traditional reading. Let say analytical reading of a book takes 24 hours. If you apply PhotoReading the book can be completed in 1/3 or better so while it might still take you 8 hours for that very detailed read, the repeated passes as you activate builds the knowledge faster than one slow analytical read. You might choose conclude the book with a rapid read, you will probably find that you have already gotten as much detail as you need through the multiple passes. The benefit of working from whole to parts is that we wind up getting the details faster.
Alex
