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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Madeleine Thien’s Giller- and GG-winning novel,\u00a0Do Not Say We Have Nothing<\/em>, is set partly in China in the culturally turbulent years after the Second World War. Two sisters, Swirl and Big Mother Knife, are story-tellers who travel the country performing\u00a0story cycles. “Stories, even in times like these, were a refuge, a passport, everywhere.”<\/p>\n

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Swirl marries Wen the Dreamer, “a walking cartload of books” who hand-copies pages banned by the Cultural Revolution. Later, after\u00a0Swirl and Wen move to a remote village and denunciations have begun, Big Mother Knife visits to find them banished from their home, others crawling around the courtyard, lifting the paving stones, looking for the treasure Swirl buried.<\/p>\n

But it wasn’t silver she hid, it was books.<\/p>\n

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Up in Flames<\/h3>\n

Wen the Dreamer copies books to save them. In The Book Thief<\/em>, after the hidden Jew\u00a0teaches her\u00a0to read, Liesel steals books the Nazi party is looking to destroy.<\/p>\n

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In Ray Bradbury’s classic,\u00a0Fahrenheit 451<\/em>, books are outlawed and burned (the the title refers to\u00a0the temperature at which paper combusts). A few are ultimately saved by exiled book-lovers who memorise the texts.<\/p>\n

Only four\u2014four!\u2014of the thousands of books that existed in Mexico in 1519 survived the bonfires of the Spanish. Bishop Diego de Landa recorded the carnage:<\/p>\n

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We found a large number of books … and, as they contained nothing in which were not to be seen as superstition and lies of the devil, we burned them all.<\/p>\n

In the early 1990s, Merrily Weisbord and I co-wrote a book called The Valour and the Horror<\/em> that prompted some\u00a0Second World War veterans\u00a0to launch a 500-million-dollar lawsuit against the writers, publishers, and filmmakers of the companion television series\u2014the biggest class-action lawsuit in Canadian history. The Canadian Senate called a hearing, and within the solemn stone walls of Canada’s parliament buildings, a senator rose to recommend that the book be recalled and destroyed. Burned.<\/p>\n

Into the Trash<\/h3>\n

At about the same time, my local library, like every library in the country, was giving up their card catalogues in favour of searchable digital databases. I used to spend hours at those narrow wooden drawers, idly thumbing the cards, waiting for the inspiration of coincidence: looking up monarch and finding Malcolm Lowry loitering nearby, which led to Lunar Caustic<\/em> and the lovely pale green luna moth.<\/p>\n

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I loved the jittery type across the top of each card, the o<\/em> and e<\/em> filled in by the ink-caked keys of some ancient typewriter, and below the essential details of title and author, notations in black ink or blue ink or pencil, handwritten by one librarian after another. On the backs of the cards, spelling corrections and comments, mini reviews and recommendations, directions to other books by the same author, catalogued under a secret nom de plume<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Those cards were coded conspiracies among book lovers, like the pin-pricked pages of\u00a0prison library books, a silent telegraph from one reader\u00a0to the next.<\/p>\n

When my local library trashed\u00a0its physical\u00a0catalogue, stacks of cards were set on the checkout counter, free to readers in search of bookmarks. I took as many as I dared, worried that some catastrophe would shut down the electricity and with it, the new digital database. I didn’t worry about an obliterating fate like the fire that consumed the library at Alexandria (not then, I didn’t) but a lesser catastrophe: books still on the shelves but no way to find them.<\/p>\n

Poof!<\/h3>\n

On Friday June 12, 2009, anyone who had purchased an ebook of George Orwell’s\u00a01984<\/em> from Amazon woke up to find it gone from their Kindle. This was not a prank, although it was highly ironic, given that in the Orwell novel, Big Brother gets rid of politically embarrassing stories by sending them down an incineration chute called “the memory hole.”<\/p>\n

\"1984,<\/a>

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In real life, it was Amazon that remotely deleted both 1984<\/em> and Animal Farm<\/em> from the Kindles of paying customers. It was a legal issue, they explained\u2014they’d bought the ebooks from a company that didn’t hold the rights\u2014and they refunded the cost of the books. But nothing could take back the sudden, absolute realization that ebooks are not ours to keep, not even when\u00a0we pay for them. What we buy is not a book, but a license to read “digital content.”<\/p>\n

Our cash transactions in a bricks-and-mortar\u00a0bookstore are\u00a0anonymous. They can’t be traced. If a bookseller discovered the book he was selling was\u00a0illegal merchandise, he would not be able to find you. And even if he could, he certainly could not break into your house and take the book off your shelf. But because digital retailers are selling a license, they can revoke it at any time, and because the transaction is tracked, they know exactly where to find you and your books.<\/p>\n

Demagogues of the future won’t have to light bonfires to get rid of books. They’ll just have to type in a code.<\/p>\n

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If there were just one book you could save, what would it be?<\/h3>\n

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