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Aug. 31st, 2007 10:48 amI 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.
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.