[clazzimoo]

Hi,

I have been some problem with photoreading, too. I think the process goes like this.

00. get the books

01. close eyes and state my purpose (usually I just tell myself that I want to undertsand whatever the author is talking about, its very abstract )

02. skim: the 1-sec page turning thing bothers me because, as soon as I get to the next page, I forget what i had just read - the chapters, subtitles and everything.

break: I have no retention of what I have read so far so I usually go back to the contents page and try to construct the main ideas. Then again, I forget about the subtitles that make up the chapters. So I often skim twice.

3. Dip: read more into it. I like this part because I get more into it. But I would get so much into it, I think I understand but then when I'm asked to summarize what the book is about, I cannot do that. I have to manually open the book and reconstruct.

4. Photofocus. Like this part the most. I often get too involved with one particular section/chapter.

5. Activate. Don't really do it. I often skip this part because by the time I have finished reading, I have spent too much time reading and I would get tired.

I think even after I have done all these, my comprehension is still verty low. If somebody were to ask me to summarize the book i had just read, i could give him/her the main abstract idea but it's hard to give details like how many chapters, what are they, how they connect to each other. Most of the times, i would even forget more about the details after a few hours/days after reading the book.

I think I'm still not understanding this whole idea of photoreading fully. I think photoreading works. I have a person photoread a book. Somebody would then take over the book, open up any page and ask him question about that particular page. He could give details like which line number, diagram and picture, and stuff like that. Eventually I want to be an effective reader like him.