Make your Kindle smell like a real book

Posted by anthonykuo , Jun, 2009 @ 12:46 pm

Ah, the familiar, musty scent of old books in a library. The correct mixture of mildew, dust, and aging paper is enough to make anyone sneeze. But as Google and the world’s ebooks start digitizing everything, that particular charm may in the near future be privy only to the weird occult and antiquated folks that like to live in the past.

You see, it’s not just the paper that makes the experience of reading a book. It’s everything, including the smell. That’s why Smell of Books thinks they have a solution, in the form of a spray can loaded with smells that you’d associate with reading an actual book. Simply spray any of their charming flavors (from “Eau you have cats” to “new book smell” to “crunchy bacon smell”) onto your favorite eBook reader, and voila.

Now I’m one for books and all their charm. But does anybody else have a problem with purposely spraying the smells from grandma’s house (yes, you can admit it, it stinks in there) onto your shiny new Kindle?

via Wired

Tags: Amazon, book, ebook, kindle, scent, wierd