What I used to do in English class was do one SR&dip pass when the book was assigned. Then as individual chapters were assigned I would activate them in the few minutes before class started (but don't do that, give yourself time to do it the night before). Since I already knew the whole story, it was just a matter of finding the finer details -- the relevant ones, the ones that clarified the story as a whole. As for metaphors and such, I found that photoreading helped me see the books in ways that others could not. Reading a book word by word takes your attention away from deeper meanings, and that's why you have an advantage of your classmates. So anyways, my best advice would be to activate the whole book once and work from there.
[This message has been edited by astrowill (edited November 20, 2003).]
