Do you ever take the time to observe the scents of books?

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I enjoy the scent of old Paperbacks.

Yes, yes, me too. It makes me feel all warm and familiar inside. If that makes any sense.

Yeah, it IS funny how scents can affect you. As fir being "familiar inside", I guess you mean bringing back old feelings and/or memories. Yeah, it does that with me also, just like some songs, and other things. At this point, if I hear the greatest hits of the 60s,70s,80s, it is likely to just replay my life. Well, at least the first 30 years.

Steve

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I like old leather book's or other material like the old books made out of ... find new one's stink of new... mind you it's mainly that thick 245gsm or so gloss paper...

Printing paper has no scent, which is why I don't smell it. On Tim_Tex's Bible note, would the original one smell like Jesus?

It'd be cool to have a book with scented paper. It'd take up time on a plane trip. Actually, this reminds me of an early episode of Red Dwarf! The character Lister is reading a cat Bible, but instead of reading printed words, you smell printed scents! That would be SOOO cool!!

Yeah some books stink don't they? Even new ones! Others smell quite nice.

Okay, who else has the lecture from Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer about how books should be smelly?

Me, I'm a Jenny Calendar kinda guy. I read my books digitally, on my palm-powered phone, akthough I do this less now that I have a smaller phone. I have also gotten heavily into audiobooks, which I listen to on my 1 1/4 hour commute each way to and from work, and on breaks. Since I have them in iPod Audiobook Format, I can pause them and pick up later... or switch from book to book. I'm currently listening to "The Lost Continent" by Bill Bryson, and just finished "World War Z" by Max Brooks.

Yes Indeed, I think it has to do with the different paper they use to make those pages so thin. But anyway I love the smell of new books, and new money (crispy bills from the ATM), and glossy baseball cards.

Sweet-smelling glue in new ones or the provenance of old paper and cover... oh, the places you've been. Used to actually take deep whiffs of them when I was a kid. ('Here, kid, have a hit of this encyclopædia!') Now I know why! I still love the smell of some books but don't consciously think about it much any more.

All books smell different, it's true. Some books smell so delicious, I can't put them down.

Me too

I enjoy the smell of books, including vintage ones.

I smell everything and am particularly fond of old books. I have some that are leather bound from about 1830 that are really good. Maybe it's because it reminds me of my grandmothers house she had a library room with hundreds of books on shelves from the floor to the ceiling I used to love it in there.

I enjoy the smell of dead skunk on the side of the road too!

(sorry for the randomness)

All books have different scents according to the type of paper and the age of the publication. Magazines usually smell new and chemical, old literature has the quality musk of age.

I always smell books. I could close my eyes and identify some of my books by their smell.