I guess the library books I sniff must have been dropped in the toilet or stored in a bucket or mothballs given their, um, distinctive aroma...
The smell of a book never exactly "...blew my skirt up..."
so I really don't get that whole thing about the experience aromatic and tactile feel of a "good" mass market million seller hardback produced for the mass market, how is that anything different from a nice trade paperback?
I do, however appreciate the craftsmanship of a true quality book with sewn bindings, nice tooled covers, protective cover pages and nice gilt lettering and hand tipped artwork. Those are something to behold and treasure...and something to NEVER stop producing and I don't care if they cost a few hundred bucks each because I appreciate the talent it takes to produce a real book. A mass market hardback is just nothing special to me at all...they are called "best sellers for a reason" there are a LOT of copies out there. Like I wrote, I far prefer the feel and nice type faces and text size found in trade PB editions. I just get the sense they are intended for actual readers.