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Well that's not what the author means by illiterate. He uses it as a way of saying that they virtually never read books.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_illiteracy

I wouldn't be surprised if the word/s the author used in Spanish for illiteracy indicated this distinction, which has then been lost in translation. Maybe.

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