A garbage man in Bogota, Colombia has been collecting discarded books for the past 20 years. José Alberto Gutiérrez is a garbage man who has been on a mission to save discarded books; books that other people have thrown away. Books are usually left separate from the rest of the rubbish, and if they're in good condition, Gutiérrez picks them up and takes them home. Though Gutiérrez's collection started with a single book (Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina"), today the total number of recovered reads has grown to roughly 25,000 at last count. The books take up the entire ground floor of his house, stacked up into great walls and mountains of pages. As the collection grew, people began to take notice. Visitors ask if they could borrow a book or two to help their kids get ready for school. The whole endeavour is now a community library: "La Fuerza de las Palabras." Today the library has become a fixture of the city. The garbage truck drivers know exactly where to bring books if they find any. There is no such thing as book heaven, but La Fuerza de las Palabras must be pretty dang close.