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Despite one of the worst levels of Internet connectivity in the world, Cuba continues to take shy steps towards the digital world.

Be it Fifty Shades of Grey, now a US blockbuster, or Cuban novelist Leonardo Padura's bestseller The Man Who Loved Dogs, informal book downloads are today swelling the databases of Cuba's still scarce but coveted e-readers.

This incipient phenomenon is flourishing like the weekly "package," an informal compilation of pirated materials downloaded from the Internet that are practically delivered to the homes of consumers in Havana and other cities.

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