Forums IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ PhotoReading, Memory Optimizer Electronic Docs VS Paper .

Just wanted to find out .
Long term benefits or disadvantages between the two .
as per ease & maintaining speeds Pdf's are convenient .
Do enlighten .

Reading on a computer is 25% slower than paper. The ability to hold a book and think of your question and flick open the books to the page with your answer is lost. One of the coolest experiences and even after all these years of PhotoReading it still makes me smile when it happens. Especially in front of my students when I pick up a book pose a question I might ask the author open the book and show how I would superread and the students notice it's exactly the page with the answer.

E-readers while faster than computer screen will also be slower and remains 5 to 10% slower than paper form. You are forced to work from beginning to end especially if the book does not have a linked table of content. The PhotoReading step is slower than I like but fast enough.

Computer screen allows for optimal speed but as reading on screen suffers I prefer to activate on an e-reader.

For me it's all the same since I've developed my own techniques for handling electronic reading. So for me on screen and ebook reading speed is about the same. Like I said the instantly opening the book to the right page is harder. I still move quickly to the right place on the computer screen.

If you are learning. I recommend working with printed material. Because the computer screen is slower for reading you would be starting your PhotoReading career with the breaks on. Get the flow of printed material then you can become a master of electronic ink.

Alex

Thanx a ton Alex ..
as usual you have made the process more clear & interesting .
Once I actually put all into thorough practice ..
I will say Ahha . That's how it goes ..

Hi Alex,
I read you response to the previous post with interest.
Since receiving my photoreading course manual last week I am currently listening through the entire program first before engaging fully with the program the second time through. I am currently doing undergraduate study with OUA( Online Universities Australia) so most of my subject matter ( heaps)is electronic. I understand by your post it is better in the beginning to use a book..I will do both and see what happens.
:-)
btw ..This is a great platform for learning and interacting..thankyou for being there/here:o)

If you want to succeed with PhotoReading quit just listening to the course and start doing the course. There is no benefit in just listening first. In fact it closes the beginner mind and what you think you know starts interfering with the learning process. Just do it.

And yes, grab the books in the course and do the exercises. Then grab a few of the books and do some more work with physical books. I know with open learning there is a lot of on Screen reading and with PhotoReading you can get a great improvement for on-screen reading comprehension and on screen reading-speed.

Like I said before, learning to PhotoRead using e-books and on screen text is like learning to run with your legs tied together. It's much easier and faster when you learn with paper text.

Alex

Thank you for your feed back Alex, and yes I understand the "doing",which I started yesterday and discovered pages two - nine missing in chapter One and the help desk have addressed. Nevertheless,I refer to: How to Use Your PhotoReading Course; Paul has a suggestion quote: " Ideally, listen to the entire course once through WITHOUT DOING any excercises, except a few you might like to try. Then listen to it a second time and DO all the excercises as you go. This strategy makes it easier to learn the program" unquote.
Which is the procedure I opted for.
Kind Regards

Yes I understand Paul's reasons. A lot of people face the course with apprehension and don't even start listening to the course. I receive an amazing number of emails from people who never got around to doing the course. Listening first does help you to understand what PhotoReading is and isn't. The problem with listening to the course first is you wind up analyzing as you proceed. The problem is if you are analyzing you're not learning and creating barriers to learning. Which is why I was imploring you to start doing.

I actually found reading the PhotoReading book first as instructed on the first page is the fastest way of understanding what PhotoReading is and then doing the course with an open mind. The results then are personally inspiring.

Alex

Alex.....I agree that we lost the ability to more dynamically interact with the material in electronic format compared to written.

but what do you mean reading is slower on a computer? If we're just talking the photoreading step, I can 'page down' MUCH faster than I can physically turn pages. I can photoread a 200 page book in maybe 2-3 minutes. The same material electronically? If I wanted I could page through it in 20 seconds.

Yes reading is 25% slower on computer screens. It's 15% slower on Kindle and similar e-readers.

For the PhotoReading step itself the computer is much faster due to hands free page flipping. However activation is slower because you can't just open the book to the needed page you have to find it. And on some e-books you don't have the advantage of linked TOC and no index. I find that a disappointment because it's a good way of assessing whether a book is of interest to me. The first pages are often redundant. I go back to Amazon and look at the scanned printed book there for the Index.

Alex

Hi Alex was just going through your site .

http://www.photoreading.com.au/what.html

So how is PhotoReading different?

PhotoReading is not reading. PhotoReading is mentally photographing the printed page at 25,000 to 60,000 words a minute for the printed page. As fast as we can turn the pages. On the computer screen we PhotoRead even faster than that. Then using the rest of the PhotoReading steps we build the conscious understanding we enjoy with traditional reading.