No, do NOT skip the PhotoReading step - why else do you think Paul called the book "Photoreading" and not "The Activation book"? The PhotoReading step is THE fundamental step in the whole system. Your mind absorbs all of the information in the book, related to your purpose, when you are PhotoReading. If you skip the PhotoReading step, you throw away all of the advantages that PhotoReading offers. You'll have to spend a lot more time to absorb the information in the books you read, and that was not the intent of the PhotoReading whole mind system; it is designed to grasp the material in 1/3rd or less of your normal reading time.

So take the time and PhotoRead the book(s), it only takes a couple of minutes to do and it saves you HOURS of regularly reading a book.