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Over the past year I've read more books than ever before, maybe more correct; I've bought more books than ever before. I'm reading books mainly because it helps me relax in an otherwise stressed day, but books are so much more than that.

Today, you can find almost anything you need, in terms of information, on the internet. However, I find reading large papers on my computer, regardless of monitor, to be exceedingly difficult. It's actually uncomfortable, my eyes starts to hurt and the pleasure of reading disappears in a matter of minutes.

Introducing to you; books. The old and analogue paper-with-letters-binded-together-invention still works. And if you're anything like me even buying them is fun. There aren't many things that are as inspiring as walking through the bookstore by the sea, sensing the smell of all those books on the shelves. Feeling the rugged paper between your fingers, flipping through pages and pages of hard work.

As mentioned; I buy a lot of books, and not just any kind of books. Lately I've started collecting on a series of 70 books from Penguin Books. 70 titles from a whole variety of different authors, published as short books at an affordable price ($3 in Dar es Salaam). The books are small enough to be brought with you while sipping your freshly grinded coffee by the sea. However, these books are not something you leave behind; each of the 70 books got it's own colour and toghether, all 70 of them, they make the colours of the rainbow.

When writing this I have 20 of the 70 books and you can find a short resyme on some of them at http://hvassing.com/books/. This is a work in progress and I'm hoping to be able to make it more comprehensive with time.