CafeScribe gives ebook readers musty smell of the real thing

While ebooks have a lot going for them, it's hard to overcome losing the satisfaction that comes from handling a physical book -- the texture of the pages, the ability to flip around quickly, and yes, the smell. Other companies might be working on solutions to the harder problems, but ebook content provider CafeScribe is going pretty low-tech to give your laptop screen the same scent as a textbook: the company is shipping "musty-smelling" scratch-and-sniff stickers with every ebook order. The promotion comes in response to a survey showing that 43 percent of students identified smell as the thing they most liked about their favorite books, but we're not so sure -- we had some used textbooks in college that we're definitely not eager to smell again.

[L. Cyphre @ Aug 24th 2007 7:54AM]

So will it smell like a five year old, second hand, yellow-paged book?
Ewwww.

[strider_mt2k @ Aug 24th 2007 8:38AM]

Ugh.
SOME books smell good from the passage of time.

Others just smell of cat pee.
(Memories of my brother's Science Fiction paperbacks in his techno-hippie domicile in the 70's-80's)

[L. Kraven @ Aug 24th 2007 9:01AM]

Perfect example of a company doomed by a bad (probably tainted) marketing study.

[pjw @ Aug 24th 2007 10:55AM]

yeah, because everyone likes their books smelling like stale vagina.