Hello, I'm brazilian and I'm absolutely new to Photoreading (I've read the explanatory textbook yesterday), so new that I actually didn't experienced any form of Activation, even manually (although I didn't tried that one very much, neither harder enough). But I put a lot of faith in the method, and I've already photoread 4 books (not trying to activate manually, except for the first of them).
Because I've been in vacation the last days, my photoreading was being directed not to academic matters, but to books related to my hobbies (that eliminates anxiety and urge to results, which I think is good). Actually, to one hobby in particular, and that is drawing.
The problem, however, is that the books I'm photoreading are fully illustrated, and very often these illustrations are explicative, and would require a more keen analysis, and sometimes these explanatory illustrations are present in nearly the whole book, and make a detailed approach to them would take so much time that it would throw away the concept of "saving time when studying" expected from photoreading. How should I proceed?
Also, for a matter of curiosity, I wanted to know if I could apply some concepts of photoreading in single or several images, or even movies, to "absorb" the visual concepts ( the aesthetical, stylistic ones to be precise), within them, rather unconsciously I would say. It's a strange use of Photoreading, but who are the photoreaders to speak of limits =)?
Ah, there's another problem... I can read consistently well in english and spanish, but my native language is portuguese, and I can sense not only a slower pace and slightly harder comprehension when reading in those languages, but also a lack of naturality, of acquaintance... That could interfere in the unconscious processes of photoreading?
I called it "another problem" because it is related to my previous question... That is, most of the material I mean to read is in a foreign language, in my case english.
P.S.: Don't forgive my writing mistakes on my posts, I'm a fierce learner, and by correcting me you aren't by any means offending me, but making me learn a little more, and that makes me grateful.
