Hey, I’m a fan of that old book smell too, can I get some scratch-n-sniff stickers?
smell, scratch-n-sniff, libraries, ebooks

Posted August 24, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Dispatches, Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: ebooks, libraries, scratch-n-sniff, smell. One Comment.

I love libraries, and I love books, but there the needs of our students and limitations of our budgets have no room for misplaced romantic attachments. That’s why I’ve found myself paraphrasing something from Ibiblio’s Paul Jones (via Teleread):
That smell of an old book, that smell of old libraries? That’s the smell of the books [...]

Posted June 12, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: book, books, budgets, education, ibiblio, information, libraries, library, paul jones, romantic attachments, rot, rotting, smell. One Comment.