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.

Scott Douglas
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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 comes from the paper in the books. The books are old and they are used up, but when they are put away in the library, they keep on living.

The library is alive with the taste of old books, with the smell of old books, with old words on old pages. There is an embedded life in these words that will never die, waiting to be read again.

Source: Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian

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