Guilty as charged!

nikolai

Do you do this?

cynic

All the time. New or old, love the smell of books. One of the charms of entering a book store, the smell is intoxicating.

It fact, it needs to be bottled. I hear that the smell of rain on parched dirt (another one of my favorite) has already been bottled and is sold in shops in Old Lucknow.

jhsurti

Can you judge a book by its smell?

Apart from jokes, Yes, the smell of books is something I miss these days. The fresh from print, the old ones lying on my shelves, and yet older ones that were tucked away in an old-age trunk of dad somewhere! (Yes I have some 1946 books still preserved. They are my mother-tongue not in English. That gives you an idea of the quality of papers and binding they used in those days. I had some books of eighties that came apart!).

Yes, the intoxicating smell of books!

Mousetrap

Absolutely! The smell (especially that of a secondhand book) is the other bonus apart from the written material that a book has to offer!

nikolai

Mousetrap 6-5-2018 06:28 PM
Absolutely! The smell (especially that of a secondhand book) is the other bonus apart from the writt ...

I was thinking new book smell. but yeah, secondhand books do have smell all their own i suppose. I am not so sure I like the really old, musty smell. I can't describe it. you know what I am talking about.

Mousetrap

nikolai 6-5-2018 06:49 PM
I was thinking new book smell. but yeah, secondhand books do have smell all their own i suppose. I ...

Yeah, to each one's own! I don't fancy new book smells as much as the old ones, and not all oldies smell musty. There's such sheer variety in book smells, old and new, that one can do a PhD on it!

Kindleking

Mousetrap 6-5-2018 06:49 PM
Yeah, to each one's own!  I don't fancy new book smells as much as the old ones, and not oldies  ...

I love smelling books...as much as that I used to smell all the books I purchase

Meself

Yessss! Smell of all books is intoxicating. Old, new and middle aged.....all of them smell so amazing!

nikolai

Mousetrap 6-5-2018 07:19 PM
Yeah, to each one's own!  I don't fancy new book smells as much as the old ones, and not all oldi ...

I put this up on FB too and a lot of people vouched for the old book smell. None of them bought my "musty" argument. I'm going to pull out all my old books one by one and give 'em a sniff and see for myself now.

Mousetrap

nikolai 7-5-2018 09:58 AM
I put this up on FB too and a lot of people vouched for the old book smell. None of them bought my ...

Kudos! Proud of ye... Give 'em all a good sniff and you'll find enlightenment.

nikolai

Mousetrap 7-5-2018 10:02 AM
Kudos! Proud of ye... Give 'em all a good sniff and you'll find enlightenment.

hahahaha!