A man in southwestern China’s Sichuan province has turned his home into a personal library with newspapers and books he collected in the past 40 years.

Pan Chuanming, 47, lives in a village outside of Dazhou city, Sichuan province. Pan became interested in newspapers when he was 8 years old under the influence of his grandfather. In almost 40 years, Pan has managed to amass a 7-ton collection of newspapers and books that fill up his office at work as well as five rooms of his home.