Have you ever heard of PhotoReading?

It is a completely untraditional method of reading books. It consists of five parts or so, including relaxation, previewing, reviewing, and the most important part: scanning through the pages 1 page per second, while maintaining a soft gaze at the blip between the pages.


Since I've been interested in increasing my reading speed and comprehension, I'm fairly interested. I've looked around the Internet searching for more info about PhotoReading and aside from the numerous pages that try to sell the product, I've found three types of reviews: some that say it works great, some that say it's a complete hoax and others who say that it works but needs a lot of concentration.

As a means to save me from getting too hooked into what could be hocus-pocus pseudoscience, I'd love to see what you people think.

Wikipedia article about PhotoReading.

PhotoReading in amazon.com

Sounds interesting. Maybe even something worth trying...

Let me get this right? You actually think you'll learn something from a book by quickly scanning one page per second?

Did you even read his links about photoreading?

Of course not.

Then maybe you should.


From my point of view, this may work but I choose not to believe it until there is some proofs that really proof it works OR I get to test it my self and it work for me. [img]smile.gif[/img]
It does sound interesting and it would be fun to try it out.

<font color=8fbc8f> If you don't mind, I would like to interject my [img]graemlins/2cents.gif[/img] .
As a junior high and high school student circa late 1970s and early 1980s. I was part of the chosen few amongst thousands of kids to participate in the early advanced readers study. Part of this involved the then current speed read word-to-subject metholodgy. It worked! I attribute much of that program to my success as an instructor, reader, and technical writer. Furthermore, the reason it works (worked) whatever, is more through brain stimulation, alert attention, and subconscious replay. If you were to read just the morning paper at leisure, you would be able to converse over one to three articles. However, if you were to speed read a 350 page novel over morning coffee, you could write a summary about it the next day. I honestly still have recall of "Pug" and his sons from "Winds of War" as being the first novel we read at speed.

I would research it further, check around your academia and investigate any probable leads from there.

Do keep us updated, or me anyway. I would like to know. </font>

Yea but how could u possibly get all the information by just turning the pages?

Photoreading is reading with a delay. You memorize the look of each page, and then read it in your head when you need it.

I suggest you try it out but buy nothing. You don't need some book to tell you how to do it, you have the internet!