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HUFFINGTON
09.23.12
There’s no
reason
not to read
these things.
It would be sad
to think nobody
is ever going
look at these
pages
again.
—Joseph Fouse
Employee Joseph Fouse says scents associated with old books are
caused by the chemical breakdown of lignin in wood pulp. It’s “why
secondhand bookstores smell like good baking,” he says.
Illustrations
from an 1866
first American
edition of Alice in
Wonderland.