As someone who’s allergic to paper mold. I hate this.

I remember coming across the word “furfural” years ago, never knew what it meant 👍👍

This is more than mildly interesting, I love it and love the smell of books!!

Books contain lignin?

So interesting! Also benzene is bad lol

(sorry to intrude). This has had a few cross-posts on Lemmy - this one technically wasn’t, but it seems Lemmy has picked up on it. If you want some ALT text, and to reply to author of this image, the link that goes to [email protected] provides that.

This sounds like it was written by ChatGPT

I believe most paints have been switched over to having low VOC content due to increased cancer risk. That means book reading might be cancerous to your health! (Or maybe not.)

Wow this is such a confirming post for me and my current dislike of the smell of books. As an allergy sufferer, the smell just makes me want to stay away. (It’s not that I don’t like to read.) My partner will open a book next to me and start flipping pages, enjoying trying to read, but I will have to get up and move away. I don’t want to feel the air of flipping the pages. It is like someone blowing dust at you, or perfume à la mold. It is a real thing.

Most of them are not healthy.

Does this account for the permeability of the paper and how it will smell sweet after being in a sugar factory or similar place?

Breweries would have an alcohol smell…

Smoker takes it home for a couple weeks.

New books made with the latest technology should last longer than old books, right?

Makes me think if the mimeographed worksheets in elementary school. Better than glue. 🤣

I used to work at a library, and about 10% of the books had a pleasing aroma, and the other 90% smelled like literal ass.