I was about to buy the classical set just because Steve recommended it. But before that I did a quick google search, and came up with this page at wikipedia:
Speed reading - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In summary, science says "don't enroll in such courses blindly".
I don't know what's the difference between speedreading and photoreading but after reading those things (at wikipedia), I changed my mind about buying the photoreading set.
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Emre Akbas