Hello Pakiyabhai
I used to think like you did and I had research , like you, to prove to my Anthony Robbins coach, that PHOTOREADING can not possibly work. I kept equating it to speedreading and my coach kept correcting me, as all the previous people on this post keep "correcting" you.

Photoreading is different from "reading" or "speedreading". YOur mind is photographing the images and/or absorbing them through various sensory modalities that we have limited understanding of. We are using the rods of the eyes, more than the cones, and the rods process information very differently than the cones.

I know I am comprehending materials and reading more books per week, than ever before in my life, using PR. I began it out of desperation to try and pass a hopeless certification test at age 51!! I had only one month to study years of post gradute materials. Not only did I pass the tes, but my score was astounding!! One month earlier than the actual test date, I was failing the practice tests badly !

PR really works and I have been using it ever since, on many other subjects. That is all I can say. Your research is good, but it applies to reading with central cone reading vision and not to peripheral rod
photographic vision. The purpose of PR is to take in the material. The modalities that process what is "photographed" are located in the brain, as well as other parts of the body, from what I have been learning.
The processing is very different.

I am a beginner at this, but my research seems to lead towards what everyone else in this post is saying and I was once a big Doubting Thomas of this system.