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The smell from National Geographic or other glossy …

Comment posted Got a Kindle miss that booky smell? by CampKohler – Sacramento CA.

The smell from National Geographic or other glossy publications is not musty; it is the smell of the clay coating on the paper that makes it glossy. I remember that the smell of the mud in my 5th-grade schoolyard in San Antonio, TX was exactly the same. Every time I smell glossy paper, I remember crossing the yard in the rain and winding up with two inches of clay stuck to my shoes.

Now, there is a musty smell to some old magazines (like Life magazine) having a somewhat smooth paper (as opposed to newsprint or standard books). But I think they get that way through age, so the phrase “new book smell” would not apply. I wish I could smell the stuff so that I could tell for sure.

Recent comments by CampKohler – Sacramento CA

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