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To: Rambi who wrote (1266)	5/7/1998 8:47:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4711

"Nothing smells better than a book you haven't read." Oh my gosh, so my oldest son and I are not unique! We NEVER buy/read a book without smelling it first. (You have to riffle the pages, and then stick your nose in the book and breathe in deeply.) It cracks everybody else up. I think, in my case, it stems from a specific childhood experience. (In my son's case, he probably got it from me.) When I used to visit my grandparents in their great place on Tybee Beach many years ago, at naptime I used to take a huge volume called "The Home Book of Verse" up with me to the attic bedroom, balanced on my head. My grandparents later said that that's how I learned to read: the words seeped down from that tome right into my brain. But what I remember is the sheer sensuous thrill of playing with that book. The pages were so silky! (They don't publish books like that any more.) And they smelled so GOOD! Yum! jbe

To: Rambi who wrote (1266)	5/7/1998 9:40:00 PM
From: Wizzer	Respond to of 4711

.....as he opened a new book and stuck his nose in it, "Nothing smells better than a book you haven't read." Unfortunately, I may have to plug my nose when I read the Hawthorne and Defoe books I bought at a garage sale for 25 cents each. They smell "aged and musty" as they probably have been sitting in a box, in a damp basement for many years. They are not damaged, but have a distinct smell. The fact that they have leather bindings, is quaint, but still contributes to the odour.