Hernando Guanlao has one overwhelming passion -- books. And in an attempt to spread his love of literature to people around him, he's turned his home into a public library.

 “It’s fine with me because I know that (people) need (the books) and in my mind, whatever they take, even everything, will be returned a thousand fold,” Nanie told theInquirer Life Style. Nanie prefers to think of the library he has been running for the past 12 years as a book club -- one where community members can come to discuss different books and literature.

Gunlao's project is formally called The Reading Club 2000; but many know it simply as “the library on Balagtas Street.""I saw my old textbooks upstairs and decided to come up with the concept of having the public use them," he told BBC.

"You don't do justice to these books if you put them in a cabinet or a box," he told theInquirer. "A book should be used and reused. It has life, it has a message. As a book caretaker, you become a full man."