Nightowl How are you getting on with these books - are they useful to help with sight reading? Also, are the pieces quite enjoyable or is it just a case of tolerating them as exercises to improve your sight reading? They say that playing a variety of easy pieces is good for sight reading and I'm considering buying some books like the ones you mentioned.
I only got to page 12 of the first sightreading book and then put it down for the time being. That portion covered all treble clef notes that had been covered in the method book to the point I was at. I'll pick it back up after I get accustomed to the additional notes on that staff.
Early sightreading material is pretty dry. But in small doses each day is fine. I absolutely agree that playing a large variety of level appropriate material is beneficial. So along with the method and sightreading, I'm also playing out of the 42 Famous Classics (easy) book that I bought.
It's getting slower for me to progress in the Faber method now at roughly half way, so I'm jumping around between books and songs, working on a couple songs from each at any given time.