This is how I won all of the reading contests in elementary school. Sure I loved to read, but I also loved winning and the dummies only tallied books read, not pages or minutes or anything more reasonable.

[–] BlueLineBae@midwest.social 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My school has a system where you could only choose eligible books and each book had a pre-assigned amount of points it was worth based on reading level/pages/etc and you would have to take a quiz to make sure you read the book. So I did the opposite and I read 3 really big books worth 40pts each and only had to take 3 quizzes which for some reason were the same amount of questions as lower level books. Wasn't enough to beat the kids that actually enjoyed reading and read a crap ton of books for fun, but at least I was able to get free tickets to 6 flags each year.

[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago

Me, who read a lot of books as a kid but never remembered to take the quizzes on the computer

[–] Neato@ttrpg.network 8 points 11 months ago

We had some computerized thing back in the late 90s that gave each book a score, usually based on complexity and length. Though I picked the highest point book we had: Gone with the Wind and ended up much worse off than if I read a bunch of smaller books because it was so god damn boring and slow for like a 5th grader.

[–] WashedOver@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

This would explain the average of a 6th grade level of language skills among adults today...

ps I say this as I've only read 2 of the books pictured and War and Peace wasn't among them.

[–] Zorque@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

Anything self-reported can be fudged. I won my schools by just saying I spent two hours (or more) a day reading super short books.

[–] ReputedlyDeplorable@lemmy.world 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ugh! My younger brother did this and won the library reading contest, I was so mad. All the books he read were around 100-200 pages, I decided to read A Tale of Two Cities and a couple other books like it. It was an injustice I read twice the amount of pages he did.

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

More like A Tale of Two Shitties your brother deserved that $10 Pizza Hut coupon.

[–] ReputedlyDeplorable@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Yes, I was a rather pretentious 12 year old. I think I picked all the books off a high school level recommended reading list because I thought it would impress the judges.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I just checked and apparently my 4 year old has taken out over 100 books from the library.

I took out like 10 in the same timeframe.

[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 5 points 11 months ago

This is precious.

[–] Lord_ToRA@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Fuck Funkopops