hmmm - this seems just a little bit silly to me! I'm not really into audio books, but don't people usually use them when they can't physically read - like when they are driving, or walking? Maybe it's just me that I'm more of a seer than a hearer, but I can't really see the point of having both at the same time. I always find myself reading on faster than whoever is narrating and then getting bored waiting for them to catch up! As for the video part, I'm not sure I see how that can come into the reading experience in a useful way - but I'll keep an open mind - see how it works out!

Hmm, I have to say from my understanding of the debate that speed reading can help to a certain point, because beyond that comprehension and recall start to go drastically down hill.

I recommend photo reading because the idea behind that is when you are reading something, generally you are wanting the answer to a question, so when you hold that question in your head, and sort of fuzzy focus on the words in the book, then your brain does the rest of the work. Obviously it is explained a lot better in the course, and it takes a bit of practice, but once you are there, it's easy.

For example, when my Mum was doing her PhD, she had loads of books to read, if she had read them in the traditional way (and she's a very quick reader anyway) she still might have taken weeks to finish each module, instead she was taking days and getting 98-100% in each of them.

I'm not sure that a comparison can be drawn here, we are comparing oranges with apples with bananas. Desktops have their uses, laptops have their uses and netbooks/tablets have their uses. People won't have one or the other. Every one will still have their desktops and or laptops.

The percentages are confusing the issue. All that is going on is the everybody is going out and buying a tablet of some description, whether it be an iPad, or a full PC tablet, but that is on top of any other computer equipment they already have or intend to buy. We need actual numbers to see exactly what is going on here, because although the percentages for desktop and laptops are going down, I bet the numbers are remaining relatively stable, if not going up as our world population increases and as younger and younger kids are wanting their own equipment.

The tablet is a completely different product with a different use. No-one will buy a netbook and expect it to perform the same as a laptop.