I belong to a book website wherein I input books I read during the year. It's called GoodReads and it's sort of an online book catalog. (LibraryThing does essentially the same thing except Goodreads counts the pages I read and keeps more stats than LibraryThing.) It also seems to be frequented more by famous authors.
I was friended by a user who owns (or has read) 10,539 books and has 1,840 friends. I think she may just be one of those people who is addicted to collecting online pals. It is hard for me to believe that one person has read more than 10,000 books in her lifetime. Unless she's incredibly old or she reads very short books.
Anyway I think we are informal rivals in this GoodReads quiz called NeverEndiing Book Quiz. There are at least 109,000 questions on this quiz because the top person on the LeaderBoard has answered 109,251 questions and responded correctly 104,982 times. He has skipped 16,874 questions and is correct 96.1% of the time. His best streak of right answers is 16,784. I don't know how old this website but I think this person is retired and has done nothing but work this quiz full time.
My best streak is 15 and I have only answered 5,473 questions and 57% of my answers are correct I am ranked 2,396 out of 2 million plus users. Of my "friends" on this website, only 4 other people are taking this quiz and three of them seem to have lost interest in the quiz. My goal was to beat Kelly Burrow which I did several weeks ago. She was ranked 4,000 something when I surpassed her. But now she is at 3,668. There had not been any activity on her quiz until recently so I think she saw my score. I am about 1,300 peeps ahead of her and I will try to maintain my lead --- even though I do cheat with Google to get some of these answers. Haha. (I am learning a great deal about literature though. Good and bad. Harry Potter and To Kill a Mockingbird seems to inspire a lot of questions.)
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