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Originally Posted by jackie_w
Actually, it's the lack of smell which keeps me firmly in the ebook camp  Most of my old pbook fiction was bought second-hand from charity shops. As a rabid anti-smoker, I have a nose that could rival a bloodhound in detecting cigarette smoke and there's nothing worse than discovering someone else's dinner stuck to the page. |
I picked up some used books one weekend, two different stores.
One obviously had a smoker unloading the truck. Because it was fresh smoke smell on some of the books. The other set smelled like they had been bathed in about 3 or 4 different perfumes. I really wasn't sure which was worse.