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Originally Posted by 85thOwl  Hi,
I have a question to all of you who have tried or mastered photoreading. I have completed the photoreading course a month ago at home and had no trouble with the dictionary game and other components, however when it came to photoreading history books I just can't seem to be efficient. Everything in the book seems to be important and while speed-reading everything seems to grasp my attention.
I am photoreading a book on the Christian Century in Japan by Boxer (514 pages) and I stated that my purpose was to find out why Christianity didn't really succeed in Japan during that time. Well it took me nearly an hour to get through 100 pages because it was so filled with details that were essential to my understanding. However at the rate I'm going 100 pages and hour will take me about 5h to complete the entire book...and even then I'm not really sure of how much information I have retained. 
Do any of you have experience with photoreading history books? How long would it take you to photoread and activate lets say a 400-500 page book? I am studying to become a historian of ideas and reading history books is crucial to my education and future profession for I'll be burying my nose in books for the rest of my academic life!
Also I have heard from some people that they are able to photoread more then one book in a day! For me that seems to be beyond my current capabilities, however I'm wandering if someone here might share their experience when photoreading more then one book and perhaps some tips on how it can be best accomplished.
Thank you for your time. |
I'm afraid you wasted your time on photoreading. They have good skimming techniques, but don't expect that hocus pocus "photoreading step" to work and make you know what's inside the whole book as well as if you read it normally