I am a brand new Photoreader (began the home course 2 weeks ago) and found that I was having doubts similar to lespaulsarecool. Reading all the replies have infused me with a new enthusiasm to "Stay with it". I am still wanting to read a reply to lespaulsarecool's last question:
If you are going to be doing several passes of activation through a book, aren't you likely to get the same effect even without the Photoreading step?