Thoughts on Derren Brown Memorizing Book?

[Josh (Josh Cohen)]

There are some more comments about the video here:

Derren Brown - Library; possible?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTUQzO9VjJY My question; is this remotely possible? I think we all know it’s possible to memorize a book in this way (though seemingly very time consuming). The real question is does this ‘photo reading’ answer really make any sense? He says he did it in under 20 minutes. I doubt even Kim Peek could accomplish that. I’ve read somewhat about speed reading and have a book by Paul R. Scheele I believe which was on photo reading, yet it never seemed very useful to m…

See also:

• Photoreading Mental photography
• Photoreading Paul Shelle
• Questions about Photoreading
• Can't believe this guy memorised whole book in less than 4 minutes? [Bijay Shahi]
• and some of the comments in this thread