15 Oct
2004
15 Oct
'04
6:05 p.m.
From: "Dennis McCarthy":
I once heard a researcher talk about a man he found smelling manuscripts in a library. A conversation started where the man explained he was trying to trace diseases in European towns. A vinegar spray was apparently used at one time as an attempted disinfectant when papers where transfered between infected and uninfected areas. You shall never get a reproduced smell from microfilm, a page scan, on an e-book.
Is that "on an e-book" intended to be "or an e-book." If so, I'm not so sure about never being able to reproduce the smell. Not that I'm particularly keen on smelling books, but I've heard of working prototypes of scent devices activated digitally.