[officelurker]

If anyone has read "How to read a book" by Mortimer Adler knows that the first step of reading is to inspect the book thoroughly - he says some books might take 10 min some 1 hour - this is even before you start reading the book. This process is necessary because one has to decide if the book is worth reading or not.

Anyone who does this step - inspectional reading - will know more or less what the book is about.

Ironically, photoreading is basically inspectional reading where one reads the title, preface, table of contents, index, and through the index jumps into sections that might interest s/he.

Also, syntopical reading is the final chapter of Adler's classic book.

Where the process of "flipping the pages" has any effect on comprehension of the text is not proven otherwise we would have major news sources covering this and this is enough proof that this is not proven.