The Smell of Books and the Kindle

Reading books is just an excuse for smelling books. Now you don't even have to read a book to smell it because of Smell of Books, which offers four varieties of book scents in aerosol: Classic Musty Smell, Crunchy Bacon Scent, Eau You Have Cats, Scent of Sensibility (for ladies), and New Book Smell.

This is another little joke in the time of the Kindle, which many people are saying will replace the book. I think it'll be a while yet: books have been so fetishized for so long that we can't get rid of them abruptly. Also, the varied pricing of books makes them an appealing product to shop for or collect: I can get a copy of Sense and Sensibility for $.25 at a yardsale or $75,000 from a rare book seller.