I have the same problem as balmon: I have to read 1000 pp technical science books (biochemistry, cell biology, virology), and it seems that everything that is in the book, is important, or else why would it be in there?

I know that you can photoread at hundreds of thousands wpm, but that gets to be irrelevant, because it's so fast as to not be a limiting factor anymore. The thing that takes up the time is bringing the material into concsious understanding. How quickly can that be done, once photoreading is mastered? How long, approximately would it take you or Paul Scheele to completely master a 1000 pp. textbook on biochemistry, complete with chemical pathways, equations, structures, etc?

Also some photoreading materials state that photoreading can be used for all materials intended for public consumption. Public consumption? Why the qualifier? What is that supposed to mean?