good smelling books

a nice article from green apple's blog...a bookstore that i have not yet had the chance to go to but hope to the next time i'm in sf...you can also buy from their website  http://www.greenapplebooks.com/

Green Apple Books

506 Clement Street (@6th Avenue)

San Francisco, CA 94118

http://thegreenapplecore.blogspot.com/2011/03/drunk-on-books.html 

 

"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."  (http://www.greenapplebooks.com/book/9780143115014)