The science behind our love for smelling old books

Usually with a book excerpt, we put the title of the work in the headline of the post, figuring that’s the most important information.

But in the case of Revelations in Air: A Guidebook to Smell by Jude Stewart, the most compelling part of the free excerpt is the specific topic: old-book smell.

This excerpt from Revelations in Air explains the scientific and emotional reasons for why we can and love sniffing old books.

Literary Hub has the passage from yesterday’s release, courtesy of its publisher.

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