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Originally posted by karnautrahl:
What benefit did you get out of that photoreading in the bookshop Alex?
Simply to decide if the book is worth buying
I spent a little over an hour in one book shop and PhotoRead about 90 books (I lost count 
) After PhotoReading them I went back to the books and selected which ones to buy.
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There seems to be a hell of a lot on the net that say photoreading cannot work by the way.
Some of it apparently is to do with how fast we can really process the written word and some of it is to do with the speed with which we can store such information in the brain. (I hesitate to use "subconscious" as it's still a theoretical construct)
When I show my classes how much information we process non-consiously and how much we are aware of consciously the jaws drop.
Just the eyes for example.
The eyes pick up 10,000,000 bits of informaion and yet we are consciously only aware of 40 bits ber second.
There is a lot of information on the subject I could ramble on and that is pointless.
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The supermemo site in particular points towards particularly negative, nay even pessimistic viewpoints; albeit though they are trying to sell you their rote learning software that is.
I assume this is something you've already come across however.[/B]
Their techniques have a place in learning too. Repetition is how we learned to use a spoon, tie our shoe laces and remember our names. 
Alex
