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For example, these were the books I picked up within 20 minutes of browsing in the Sydney Kinokuniya. None of these titles are available for the Kindle (I think), and after agonizing for another hour, I decided to buy The Well of Loneliness and The War With The Newts. I knew these editions wouldn’t be carried in American bookstores, and I wasn’t going to waste time searching for them on Amazon, Book Depository or Fishpond.

Why Old Books Smell Good

“Lignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to vanillin. When made into paper and stored for years, it breaks down and smells good. Which is how divine providence has arranged for secondhand bookstores to smell like good quality vanilla absolute, subliminally stoking a hunger for knowledge in all of us.

—From Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez’s Perfumes: the guide

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Guardian’s Patrick Kingsley investigates the flipback, a new print book format that combines the conveniences of e-readers (lightweight) and the pleasures of print books (feel of paper, smell).

Innovation or gimmick?

I guess we’re not done with fetishizing the dead tree book!

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Book Scented Candles by Assouline (via @sosupersam)

Our salute to Valentine’s Day continues: check out nerdvalentine for truly inspired gifts for your sweetheart. 

If this Assouline candle, which evokes “the atmosphere of your fantasy library, and the pleasure of reading, through the enigmatic scent of paper,” is not enough to please your true love, perhaps Assouline’s Goyard Trunk would do the trick.

According to Assouline: “Each trunk houses 100 of Assouline’s signature Memoire photo-biographies on art, fashion, design and architecture, making it the ultimate in chic.”

The ultimate in chic! I’d say you can’t put a price on that, but apparently it’s $20,000. 

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Flavorwire analyzes James Franco’s bookshelf from pics the actor himself tweeted.

NYT: The future of print books will be personalised and beautiful.

(Picture depicts customised jackets for a collection of cookbooks from Juniper Books.)

Seriously, Housing Works Bookstore, why can’t you be located in every single part of the world that I’m in? You’re SO inconsiderate.

housingworksbookstore:

More than 30,000 Books on shophousingworks.com

Now you can buy all your books from Housing Works Bookstore Cafe – no matter where you live. Search for any book at shophousingworks.com. Every penny fights AIDS and homelessness. Low prices and free shipping on every book we stock! Even if we don’t have it, we’ll send you to an Amazon.com page where your purchase still supports Housing Works.

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