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Originally Posted by garygibsonsf
I'm glad someone started this thread, because one of the things that bugs me about the whole 'smell of books' argument is that a lot of the time what people are really smelling - particularly in terms of old or second-hand books- is rotting paper. You're smelling the long, slow death of your book as it slowly turns yellow and crumbles - a fate which, assuming you're not allergic to occasional backups, your digital text (okay, assuming it's multiformat or has been de-drmed) will never suffer.
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Well, except for what they're confusing it with. The much older tradition of books which used to smell good because they were wrapped in animal skin (which, when treated properly DOES smell good... at least until it stops being treated properly, and then it can either smell like nothing, or even bad).