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I've read all about the 25K wpm speed that you can mentally photograph, but how quickly do you understand?

How long would it take an expert Photoreader to consume an entire physics textbook and achieve the same level of understanding as someone reading the traditional way.

A beginning PhotoReader should be able to process and understand information in 1/3 the time that he would have before learning PhotoReading.

And expert PhotoReader can cut that down even more.

Cut that down even more? How much more? I heard a figure like 12 to 14 times faster. Is there any truth in that?

A regular speed reading program could triple your speed, and you would instantly have access to the information, without activation. Plus you could get that for free from the library.

Expert PhotoReaders regularly get to 18 times.

PhotoReading does not triple your reading speed. Rather, a beginning PhotoReader will be able to get through materials three times faster than now--that includes activation.

During this period you will be going through the materials multiple times. That is why you are not reading three times faster.

It is a different paradigm than reading or speed reading.

Another thing is that your comprehension will be richer when using a system such as PhotoReading than you could ever hope to get with a speed reading course.

If you doubt it, put it to a head-to-head test.

In my own experience I have found that speed reading was useful, in the begining, but it became very time consuming and sore on the eyes. To gain and maintain speed, it requires alot of effort and practice, without which your speed suffers. A huge advantage of PRing is that the photoreading step, can be done anywhere you read and if you practice this step alone over a very short period of time ie 1-2 weeks I have found the beginings of spontaneous activation. I tried this with a dictionary, I 'failed' at the dictionary game and thought what the hell, what happens if I'm not testing myself and just see what shows up..all I lose are a few minutes in my day..The end result was people were asking to spell words and give a defintion and I could without much hassel..verbatium has the dictionary..I wasn't able to do this with speed reading.

is that why you misspelled hassle, mr. dictionary? LOL

Yup. That's funny. Good work Drew!

It reminds me of the time we were demo-ing Paraliminal Tapes at a conference. We had a bunch of Walkmans along with a selection of Paraliminals. One lady took off the headsets and exclaimed, "This is great. It is the best tape I've ever heard."

A guy asked, "Which tape is it?"

She didn't remember and looked to me. I had no idea, so we opened the Walkman to find the Memory Supercharger.

The guy rolled his eyes and walked away.