Anything you can read you can PhotoRead. If you're new to PhotoReading I recommend learning the system first. Don't let that stop you from PhotoReading the textbook daily for a while.
Electronic PhotoReading, tap to turn the page at a steady rate. On a computer you can set Acrobat reader to advance the pages hands free. See the preferences.
When you read for meaning you can understand some new word easily enough. In specialist fields I recommend checking the glossary. In fact if the book has a glossary, I recommend activating that first even though it's usually at the end of the book. Learn the authors meaning of the words helps. Also use a dictionary if you find words that stump you.
Your purpose, how to PhotoRead was incomplete. How to PhotoRead is a statement or question it's not a purpose in itself. A purpose answers, why you're learning PhotoReading. How to PhotoRead is an activation question, a broad one (hint: follow the first Ensteins for that purpose).
Why are you learning to PhotoRead... so that I can.....
Activation; consider what you need to know, ask questions to get answers to that.
Could you enter your purpose into a google search and get answers that way? Yes, I recommend you now how to PhotoRead because google will provide 100s of pages with possible answers and experience has shown me that the best are not always top of the page and my even be on the second or third page of the search results. If you start reading all those pages the old fashioned way you'll be spending more time reading not less. Also textbooks assigned are usually the source used by those grading your papers. If you want to pass the grade, have the know the material the lecturer / instructor, is familiar with.
Your purpose is like the launching pad, take aim and go. To move to your destination you need formulate questions that help you steer your course to the destination.
Purpose can be many for one book. Your purpose and and activation questions can be broad or focused. Ones first purpose for the PhotoReading book can be to learn the how to PhotoRead. Then the purpose could be to understand the 5 steps, then a purpose could be to refine each step.
And the best step to focus on is the first step.
Alex
