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\nEssays by Roland Barthes marked with fluorescent highlighters; poems by Carlos de Rokha or Enrique Lihn stapled together; ring-bound or precariously fastened novels by Witold Gombrowicz or Clarice Lispector: it\u2019s good to remember that we learned to read with these photocopies, which we waited for impatiently, smoking, on the other side of the copy-shop window. As citizens of a country where books are ridiculously expensive to buy and libraries are poorly equipped or nonexistent, we got used to reading photocopies, and we even came to find it charming. In exchange for just a few pesos, some giant, tireless machines could bestow on us the literature we so desired. We read those warm bundles of paper and then stored them on shelves as if they were real books. Because that\u2019s what they were to us: rare, beloved books. Important books.<\/p>\n

I remember a classmate who photocopied War and Peace<\/em> at a rate of thirty pages per week, and a friend who bought reams of light-blue paper because according to her, the printing came out better. The greatest bibliographic gem I have is a slipshod but lovingly made copy of La Nueva novela<\/em>, the inimitable book-object by Juan Luis Mart\u00ednez that we tried to imitate anyway. My version is complete with a transparent inset, a Chilean flag insert, a page with Chinese characters intermingled in the text, and fishhooks stuck to the paper. Several of us collaborated on making it, regressing back to our days in carpentry class at school. The resulting table was pretty wobbly, but I\u2019ll never forget what a good time we had in those weeks of scissors, fasteners, and photocopies.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the second half of the nineties, some publishers started a campaign against photocopying books, and they used this disquieting slogan: \u201cA book dies every time you photocopy one.\u201d We felt those campaigns as a kind of attack on us: they wanted to take away the only means we had to read what we really wanted to read. They said the photocopy was killing the book, but we knew that literature survived in those stained pages, just as it survives now on screens\u2014because books are still scandalously expensive in Chile.<\/p>\n

The discussion around digital books, incidentally, is at times overly elaborate: the defenders of conventional books appeal to romantic images of reading (to which I fully subscribe), and the electronic propagandist will insist on the comfort of carrying your library in your pocket or the miracle of endlessly interlinking texts. But it\u2019s not so much about habits as it is about costs. Can we really expect a student to spend twenty thousand pesos on a book? Isn\u2019t it quite reasonable for them to just download it from the Internet?<\/p>\n

Today many readers have first-rate virtual libraries, with no need to use a credit card or buy the latest gadget. It\u2019s hard to be against this miracle. Editors, booksellers, distributors, and authors unite occasionally to combat practices that ruin business, but books have become luxury items, and absolutely nothing indicates that this will change\u2014especially in countries like Chile, where books are, and have been for too many years now, the domain of collectors.<\/p>\n

I myself have become a collector over time because I wouldn\u2019t dare to live without my books. But in my case, it\u2019s something more like atavism, an anachronistic and slightly absurd inclination to sleep wrapped up in a library. I remember a friend who would always offer me a storage room for my books because he couldn\u2019t understand how I could forgo so much of my living space to hang those shelves that were, according to him, dangerous: \u201cThe next earthquake will hit and they\u2019ll fall on top of you and you\u2019ll die, all thanks to your encyclopedias,\u201d he\u2019d say, even though I\u2019ve never owned encyclopedias.<\/p>\n

Nor have I been able to throw away the old ring-bound photocopies, even when I later got hold of the books in original editions. Now that photocopies are on the wane, I can\u2019t help but feel a bit nostalgic, and I can\u2019t bring myself to throw them out; every once in a while, I still page through those fake books that once provoked a genuine and lasting wonder.<\/p>\n

\u2014Translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell<\/em><\/p>\n

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Alejandro Zambra is a Chilean writer who lives in Mexico City. His books include\u00a0<\/em>Multiple Choice\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>My Documents, among others.<\/em><\/p>\n

Megan McDowell is a literary translator from Kentucky who lives in Santiago, Chile.<\/em><\/p>\n

Excerpted from\u00a0<\/em>Not to Read<\/a>, by Alejandro Zambra, translated by Megan McDowell, published by Fitzcarraldo Editions.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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