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Thobeka has always been a bookworm. When she was very little and couldn’t read yet, her favourite part of the day was when her mom would read her a story before bedtime.

  Scenario : Thobeka has always been a bookworm. When she was very little and couldn’t read yet, her favourite part of the day was when her mom would read her a story before bedtime. After she learned to read, she devoured books. Tales of bravery and love and silliness and sometimes… sadness. But no matter what the books were about, the stories transported her to worlds so different to her own life. One day she noticed that her mom was always smiling knowingly while writing something on a list. When she asked her about it, her mom revealed that she had been keeping a list of all the books that Thobeka had ever read. And so, she took over ownership of the list and has been adding to it ever since. Many years later, she was still adding to the ever-growing list in the pretty notebook with the butterfly on the cover. Looking at her childish handwriting in the first few entries always makes her smile. Now that she has a new Android smart phone, she was wondering if it would be possible...