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[fuyu]

I hate my management textbook, for just about the strangest possible reason. It's not that it's too heavy (it's a reasonable weight). It's not that it cost too much (though it did). It's not even that it's boring or badly written (it's not).

No, the reason I hate it is that it smells bad.

The books were brand-new, you see, and shrink-wrapped, so I guess whatever factory smell they had was forced to linger. And I don't know if it was some process in making the paper, or if it's the composition of the ink, but... the textbook has a nasty sort of chemical factory smell that is very repulsive to me. It's like new plastic, except somehow worse.

It seems like such a minor stupid thing to complain about, but it's amazingly off-putting.

Comments

[risingdragon.livejournal.com]

I hear you can nullify that by sticking it in a box with an open container of baking soda.

[fuyu]

Oho? I may have to try that.

[area-woman.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean, trust me. Everything in cookware is silicone these days, and let me tell you, silicone straight out of the shrink-wrap is the foulest smell on earth.

[fuyu]

Yaaargh.

Still, stuff like that you still kind of... expect it, don't you? Some attendant stink? I mean, nobody ever expects a book to smell bad.

[kupoke.livejournal.com]

Call me crazy, but I've always loved the smell of brand-new, shrink-wrapped books. XD

[fuyu]

YOU ARE CRAZY.

XD That nasty chemical factory smell? Are you serious? Man, there's new books I can just stick my nose in and inhale, and then there's THIS...

[ettezag.livejournal.com]

I used to buy used CDs that always smelled nauseatingly strange, as if they were stuck in a moldy basement for storage :/

[fuyu]

...ewwww. D: