Text addict keeps 100,000 messages after vowing to never delete an SMS

SHAKESPEARE it is not - but a British text addict who has kept every one of her 100,000 SMS messages is turning the results into a book.

Tracy Moberly says she loves documenting her life's moments

SHAKESPEARE it is not - but a British text addict who has kept every one of the 100,000 SMS messages she has received is turning the results into a book.

Tracy Moberly, 47, from the UK, deleted her first ever text message 12 years ago by accident and vowed never to erase another one.

More than 100,000 messages later, she now keeps a journal with every text she has ever received and is releasing the results into a book, according to the Daily Mail.

Boring or endearing? You decide.

The journals document every moment in Ms Moberly's life - from the breakdown of her marriage to the pain of losing her father. She also likes to record her friends' reactions to major world events.

Ms Moberly says she is not obsessive but "loves to look back  at old messages and document everyday conversations that will last forever". 

The messages include those from celebrities such as hell-raising singer Pete Doherty and undercover artist Banksy.

Ms Moberly gets an average of 23 texts a day - just over the UK average of 20.

Technology research company Gartner predicts 11.2 billion messages will be sent in Australia in 2011. 

In 2008, 2.3 trillion messages were sent globally, according to the company.