You can't "test" photoreading on material you do not "need" to read and get good results.
The subconscious mind is not material, it's energy. Energy is electric in nature and in order for the physical body to process it (the conscious mind is the body [brain] and the subconscious mind is the energy body), a connection has to be made. That connection is INTENT. Intent is EMOTIONAL. You have to be emotionally drawn to the information in the subconscious mind in order to access it.
Tony Robbins proved this in the 80's so why are people in the year 2006 still oblivious to it?
If you photoread a book about a subject that you love, you are emotionally charged and picking bits and pieces of information out of your subconscious mind is effortless, it flows. That is a possitive, light side example.
A negative, dark side example is if you're in college and you're photoreading something you need to understand in order to pass a test. In this case, anxiety and despair are the emotions that are driving the intent (not love) BUT it still works. You have to get it done, you need to get it done. As Tony Robbins put it, you have leverage on yourself. In this case it's a negative emotion that's driving you to access the information stored in your subconscious energy body. If you NEED to get something, you'll get it. If you don't really have the need, forget it.
What doesn't work at all is if you feel indifferent toward the information. The information is still downloaded into your subconscious via the PR step but when you go and activate it, nothing happens. Why? There is no emotion that can connect the conscious mind to the subconscious mind. You can say you have intent or you can say you have leverage, but if you don't FEEL it, it can't work. It can't work because you can't fake feelings. You can say the words, you can go through the motions, but if you don't really have feelings toward it, it's not going to work.
I failed to get photoreading to work for over 3 years and nothing that was said on this forum helped me because I didn't understand this. I think those that did get it to work were probably alot smarter than I was and figured this out on their own and stuck with information they needed to use for something instead of doing what I did which was try to test if for myself on random books to prove it to myself. I failed at it because it doesn't work that way. If I'm not mistaken, some other people that naturally got it to work right away were probably college students driven by the NEED to understand material for classes, even if they didn't particularly like it. Both negative and positive emotions will get it to work but that middle ground- neutral feelings ("I'll test this")- won't work.
I can't really prove what I'm saying either about the information being stored in your energy body and not your brain other than saying that if it were stored in your brain you'd be able to get it just by thinking about it. If you consciously read something you put it in your brain and by repeating it over and over you create a literal memory. The PR step doesn't do that, obviously. It throws the information in the same place you have every memory and experience you've ever had- the subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is a higher frequency field that the body is attached to but is not IN the body. In order to access it you have to vibrate YOURSELF to IT'S frequency, and that is almost always the same frequency that you were in when you had the experience and created the memory in the first place but it's specific and like a snow flake, no two memories are alike so it's HARD to find them once they're in the subconscious mind.
Not only that but everytime you fall asleep you reorganize these memories and the information gets filed with like files (that already exist) and the original emotions that connected the original experiences sometimes get separated from each other. This happens because the experiences we have in life cause our values to change. Things that used to anger us, we've learned to deal with so all of the angry memories we've ever had would get shuttled around our subconscious minds out of "angry" files and into other related files they belong in. This makes memories harder and harder to find as we age.
The quick way to find them (memories in the subconscious) is with emotionally charged intent. The slow way to find them is with hypnosis. With hypnosis you can dig through the files of your subconscious mind using associations only, without the emotions or intent, but who want's to pay a hypnotist $50 an hour to do this everytime you want to remember something?
Knowing this, do you still want to Photoread as your main way of reading? Why not? Once you get good it's pretty fast but if you don't know the trick, which now you do, it won't work.
These "researchers" only know about the conscious mind, they can't possibly even test a subconscious way of reading. Forget them.