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Originally Posted by kacir
Paper books smell AWFUL.
Period.
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Two of them thus far.
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Many veteran bookworms (like myself) would swear that they smell nice. That is simply a Pavlovian Reflex.
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Awfully nice?
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We were conditioned to associate smell of mouldy pulp, slowly decomposing organic glue (**), aggresive chemicals used to process brown pulp into white paper, unwashed hands of dozens of people reading the library book at the loo with all those countles hours of [reading] pleasure we get from those smelly books.
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To paraphrase the modern Homer, "Mmm, mouldy pulp, slowly decomposing organic glue, aggresive chemicals used to process brown pulp into white paper, arrrgggglllll [drool]" (I don't borrow books from the library though - the only unwashed hands are my own
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It reminds me of the myth of
Frau Blucher, and that makes me laugh. "O-val-tine?" Giggle.