I Love the Smell of Old Books

I was a philosophy addict when I was in college. I had no idea what my magnum opus was, and only a vague idea how to go about approaching it. But I knew that whatever it was, it involved lots of dead German guys, and I would need to be...

So I'm not the only person in the world who gets "turned on" by book fragrances!  That is an experience that no computer or "Kindle" can provide...

One of the colleges I went to hadn't updated their library (much to the science students' dismay). I used to love going in there and looking at old books. There were some from the 40's and 50's and maybe even the twenties.  I liked...

I get lost in old books.  A library is wonderful, a bookstore, sublime.  But best of all is a private collection.  A vaguely uncomfortable chair tucked out of sight, a tottering stack of newer, less precious books laid before an...

I volunteer at the local library doing things to free the staff to help people. Usually I check in books. A lot of this involves checking in books patrons have requested from other libraries. A few weeks ago I found a book who's first...

...Of old books, because it smells like age and time itself sealed inside books. I adore it so much that I like to bury my nose inside the pages to absorb the scent somehow; I know that sounds weird as hell, but I do do it.

Oh, I just love old books. love their feel and their smell, don't mind the dust.

I feel so comfortable around them. I think of them as my childhood buddies who would understand and care for me.

I have visited many bookstores and...

old books,Lov' 'em,The smell,Gets me goin',Excited,Yet another book store.

This is the first day in many long years that I have reasonably contemplated getting rid of the vast majority of my books.

What a weighty decision that is. I want to look at them as nothing but possessions but in my heart, and in...

books not just old but new ones also. Everytime I open a book I have the urge to smell within the pages. Does anyone else do this when reading?

my grandmdother died, and amongst her possesions we found marvelous antique books from her own great-grandmother's time!
One in particular is "The Mistress of Manse" and it was printed in 1875, and it smells incredible. ...

I moved to a different town with my family at the age of nine. While I was unpacking, I came across a box of books. They were my great grandmother's books. I had never met her, but she left behind quite a collection of books; Little...

Preferably old books. There is nothing like the smell of dusty paper, with hard printed letters on thick browned pages to calm the nerves. I grew up in a home filled with books, and to me they have always been like secret worlds...