Pickles by Brian Crane for August 10, 2017

I wonder if those books were published by The HUFFINGton Post?

Opal ought to visit a printshop sometime.

You can’t get that ’new book" aroma from an e-book.

Like the old mimeographed handouts we used to get in school. Could get a bit of a high from the alcohol as they came right off the machine.

Why doesn’t Opal have her own card?

I just love the smell of bindings, glue, and paper.

A new book smells mostly of ink but an old one smells of decaying paper, glue and fungus.

My cats love it when I bring home a book from the library – lots of new and unusual smells for them, lol.

There are some books I have which have their very own smell. I wonder why?

xxx

I never notice a book having any smell. I thought Opal was crying about a sad story.

You enabled Opal to be happy, Earl.

You’re a good man.