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Originally Posted by Anthem
Why do people smell wine?
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Smell is naturally connected to taste. There's no inherent connection between smell and vision.
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Originally Posted by Anthem
Speaking personally, the smell of a book speaks about the quality of a book and the processes used to bring about the result. Mass market paperbacks and finely milled paper stock from France DO NOT smell the same, have the same texture, or the same inherent qualities. A quick whiff can cue you in much faster than traveling to the manufacturing facilities to prove it to yourself.
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Which has exactly what to do with the
quality of literature? When it comes to literature,
the package is irrelevant. It represents a distraction from the literature, not an augmentation of it.
The Three Musketeers is as great a story in paperback as in hardback with a $500 binding... better, in fact, because I'm not thinking about expensive bindings. If I'm obsessing about the smell of finely-crafted french linen, I'm not absorbing the story.
My take:
Feh on smelling books.
How do my ebooks smell? I have no idea.