- ISBN13: 9780925480538
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Product Description
When you learn Photoreading you will experience what might sound impossible. You will PhotoRead the written page at rates exceeding a page per second, directing information into the expanded processing capabilities of your brain. There the information connects with your prior knowledge and becomes useful to accomplishing your purpose. You get your reading done in the time you have available, at a level of comprehension you need…. More >>
#1 by Imre Balog on January 26, 2010 - 2:13 am
One extremely revealing and extraordinary book, I just did not have the time yet to implement what’s in it, but I sure will in the near future.
I believe this is one of the rare books which really can change your life forever.
I can’t wait to start applying what I learned.
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by Pete on January 26, 2010 - 2:50 am
But I think I photoread all the comments. The book sucks or it’s the best thing in the world. The only time my subconcious works is when the information is in my head and then it works it out in my sleep or some other time. How do you get the information by unfocusing your attention on the book as you flip through the pages? All that comes to my head would be a few words that are easily forgotten 5 page flips later. You guys confirmed it cause I thought there was something deeper than flipping the pages that I didn’t know about, and so to find that out I would have had to buy the book. But now I know that all it is is flipping pages every few seconds.
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by Anonymous on January 26, 2010 - 5:50 am
After reading all of the reviews… The two extremes… I would say that is very doubtful that it works. I search the web looking for some News report on the photoreading technique, but I was not able to find anything from a decent source such as CNN, USATODAY, etc. Which makes me think that if this was so good, why is not used on schools, etc. Until I see some realible source.. I can see my self wasting more of my time and money. If it sounds to good to be true…
Rating: 1 / 5
#4 by Vodo X on January 26, 2010 - 7:26 am
Useless!!!! Just read more and you’ll read faster for free! There’s no use in the whole speed reading hype! If there was a real speed reading course that worked, then why isn’t it caught in school? Hell, I learned the metric system in school and we don’t even use it in America!
Rating: 1 / 5
#5 by Dennis N. Mehay on January 26, 2010 - 9:33 am
I must say at the outset that I have not read Mr. Scheele’s book; I have, however, encountered his techniques in Win Wenger’s _The Einstein Factor_ (in fact, the photoreading techniques it was promised to contain were the main reason I bought Win’s book). The reason I’m writing this review is simply to comment on some of the reviews I’ve encountered on this site–reviews which, if I were more impressionable, might have dissuaded me from buying _The Photoreading Whole Mind System_.
First, in reference to the review by “A reader” from Bethlehem, PA, I can only wonder at the motives behind such an irresponsible use of this forum. It seems that “reader” assumes we will all acquiesce to his agenda-driven tirade, which, by the way, commits everyone’s favorite informal logical fallacy–yep, you guessed it, The Argument from (lack of) Authority. “reader”, you should know that your review was thorougly unhelpful; the only purpose it might have served is to harm Mr. Scheele’s sales. (Oh ya, you might want to take it easy with the ill-formed ellipses).
Second, as to the review by Mr. Jim Carnell, no-one is attempting to spit in the face of the findings of cognitive science, here. Mr. Scheele (so far as I know his techniques) is not attempting primarily to explain *how* photoreading works, but simply *that* it does work. There is a big difference. If, however, Mr. Scheele does make some claims that seem inconsonant with what we know about the workings of human vision, all this shows is that he has given the wrong explanatory account. This in no way impugns his findings concerning the effectiveness of photoreading techniques (one could just as easily give an account that makes little or no appeal to peripheral vision, e.g., an account that explains photoreading in terms of saccadic eye movements). Oh, and Jim, lay off the academic snobbery; it doesn’t really persuade anyone with half a brain. (Notice how I didn’t title my review “Logic” even though I’m a logician?)
Lastly, I’d like to say three things: 1) I have tried some of Mr. Scheele’s techniques (as described by Dr. Wenger in his book), and they seemed to work quite well, considering the minimal effort I put into mastering them. 2) I’d like to recommend Strunk and White’s _The Elements of Style_ to the two above-disparaged reviewers. In future, please spare us the ungrammatical drivel. 3) “reader” you might want to look somewhere other than _CNN_ or _USA Today_ for late-breaking news of scientific discoveries. –Cheers
Rating: 5 / 5