how do i input the contents of 8000 textfiles into a linked list?

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I have a folder that contains 8000 subfolders. Each of these subfolders contains 2 textfiles. What I want to do is this - for each of the 8000 subfolders (each contains the title and body of a news article), i want to read in the text files and place their contents into a linked list. So the end result will be a linked list of 8000 "news article" objects, each containing the text from 1 of the 8000 subfolders. Is there a not-overly complicated way of doing this?

thanks!