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Originally Posted by Fastolfe
Feeling constipated lately?
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(No more than usual?!) Since when did genuine curiosity become synonymous with a lack of regularity in your bowels?
You kill me!
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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
I do understand on a visceral level those who get as much enjoyment from the package as the product.
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While you can understand them I am not as capable. I am occasionally reminded of something with a smell but I normally lack that
thing that allows for positive associations. I don't know why but I am just not able to do it. Maybe my sinuses are getting worse as I age?!
I agree to move on, but would like to point out as we do so that this is not at all what I was addressing with my comments on smell.
I was just talking about identifying certain marks of quality using your nose (identifying certain chemicals in paper composition, the results of different raw materials being used (types of leather and the processes required to process them), et cetera, which are identifiable using your nose on occasion much as looking at the pore patterns visually (unless they are artificial, which happens a lot these days), not to mention the presence of certain reserves in a paper mixture). Which is definitely not what you are addressing so I hope that clears up some of the fog as we were definitely talking about different things.
I realize that when people speak about smell in relation to books they are normally speaking about what you are speaking about, and I should have tried harder to make it obvious that I was attempting to broach a different topic in relation to smell (I thought the wine tasters among us would understand my wine testing reference but I was not so lucky!).
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Originally Posted by Kali Yuga
Personally I don't particularly care, but the fact that I don't care does not make it go away for everyone else.  |
A long time ago, when I first contemplated (2000, yes I remember!) moving some of my reading over to electronic displays I worried a bit about this. After a book or two, I found out that I really don't do that sort of thing with books and I just read them. Which was a surprise. Over time, I have learned that I am not much of a sentimentalist (despite being a sap) and my disillusionment was rapid and brief.