There was a big discussion about the smell of books in one of the review books I read last week! One character had another gather a variety of books (HB, PB, old and new, good quality and not-so-good) and give them a smell test It really made me smile--nice to have others share your little weirdnesses.But do you like the smell of those pages? Seriously, that book in particular has the most amazing smell to it. I know, it sounds weird, but it just smells like 'class' to me. They don't make books like that now, at least not that you can buy in a Barnes and Nobles. Grant books is a wonderful publisher, but even their books they print now don't have the same feel/smell/charm like the ones they did back in the '80's.