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I've spent a lot of time trying to convince my mother to buy herself an e-reader. Every debate, ultimately, came down to her liking the texture or smell of books; I realised this is true for just about every booklover who refuses to use an e-reader, and so I've coined the term 'Booksniffers'.
book·snif·fer
n.
1. One that enjoys the smell of books, especially a person who refuses to adapt to e-reader devices.
The booksniffer's natural habitat is the library; bombarded with the scent of yellowing paper from all sides, the booksniffer feels at ease. It is not uncommon to find, upon removing the third book of Douglas Adam's "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", that a booksniffer has hollowed out the wall behind the Science Fiction A-C shelf and has made a nest out of shredded paper and bits of lint from the librarians' cardigans.
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