Alas The PhotoReading step is not Reading therefore all known data pertaining to Speed Reading does not fit PhotoReading. You are correct that no one can read at speeds greater than 600 wpm a calculator will prove that if you take the 7 plus or minus 2 bits of information per second.
Look instead at research that all leaning is 90% non-consious. That is what PhotoReading takes advantage of. Pawel Lewicki research is an interesting place to start. He found that not only does learning take place non consciously. Consciously we are unable to explain how we suddenly understand something that only moments before we didn't know.
The biggest mistake we make when reading is to start too early with analyical reading. We expect to know everything with one pass through the book. As Mortimer J. Alder and Charles Van Doren in the book "How to Read a Book", pointed out. Analytical reading is the last stage of reading not the first. Comprehension should be built with more than one reading.
Alex
[This message has been edited by Alex K. Viefhaus (edited January 09, 2005).]
