“A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.”

“There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say that smell is asbestos.”

“It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book… it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt…”

“And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new?”

“The place was part museum, part library, and part archive; I loved it at first sight…and smell, for here there were thousands of printed books, many very old indeed, and nothing smells quite as wonderful as old books.”

“I even love the smell of books.”

“opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it.”

“There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.”

“She loved the smell of books, the feel of books, the look of them on the shelf.”

“I love the smell of book ink in the morning.”