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“Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”
– Marcel Proust
“I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with...”
– Roald Dahl (via prettybooks)
Why secondhand bookstores smell good
mcnallyjackson:
powells:
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...
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