Thanks for your replies. I do actually believe that photoreading works especially the photoreading step for today in history class I forgot to revise and when the teacher asked as some questions the answers suddenly flashed before my eyes! I especially saw the dates very clearly and guess what? They were correct!
I also devised a way how to get the information that I need. For example in the book I'm reading there is info on Christianity but also an piracy and trade. While I need both the first time passing through the book I simply only extraced keywords from the parts that devoted themselves to trade and read everything on Christianity that seemed important with more care.
Having finished the book I then stated my purpose to find out how trade affected Christianity and what kind of role it played. When I did this I skipped through nearly half the book not rereading the parts about Christianity but super-reading the parts where trade was mentioned. This way I managed to pick up the details that weren't essential to my first purpose when reading the book but essential to my second purpose.
I rather like this technique, it's a bit time consuming but then again I managed to finish in a couple of hours while it would have normally taken me a week to get through it.
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