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Originally Posted by Fastolfe
Look, it's really a matter of compromise, and figuring out what's important to you. I'm with you on the screen and "feeling" issue: an ebook reader just isn't as nice to look at as a paper book, and certainly nowhere as nice to touch or smell. It's also more fragile, needs charging, and as you point out, it's not as easy to do certain things like flipping through the pages.
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Sigh 
Seriously, why would anyone
smell a book? Books are about
words... you
read 'em. If you want an olfactory experience, pick some flowers or visit a farm.
Feeling paper, smelling paper... all of that is just habit and familiarity talking. There's nothing great about the feel or smell of processed tree pulp! You're feeling and smelling more chemicals, bleaches and petroleum products than vegetable matter! You might as well be sniffing glue.
Double-check, and I think you'll find a fiddler on your roof. Well, it's time to tell the fiddler to find another venue and change his tune. It's the 21st century... we're moving on.