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Bibliosmia: The Smell of Old Books

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Bibliosmia: The Smell of Old Books
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Ginny Branch3d ago

One of my daughter’s (and my) favorite things to do is breathe in the smell of an old book. New ones can smell nice too as long as the fresh ink smell isn’t too overpowering. But my daughter has a Pavlovian urge to inhale the pages of a book as soon as it gets in her hands

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