#5: The Most Heavenly Scent
If you’re a book person, there are a few things that you really love: discovering a cozy bookstore where the friendly and wise owner wears a knit sweater and a cat winds around the piles of secondhand novels; a brand new book with a fresh, uncracked spine; an ancient university library full of dark wood and endless rows of leather-bound tomes from another age; “shelf candy,” which are books with a beautiful spine that look gorgeous in your collection.
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And then, of course, there’s the smell of old books. But it’s not just a mysterious scent that books mysteriously gather over time! Now you know the actual science behind that. The more you know, right?