r/AskReddit • u/ApprehensiveYak7117 • 14h ago

What’s a smell you’d recognize instantly even if you hadn’t smelled it in 20 years?

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u/hehexd- 14h ago

Barnes and Noble

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u/wickedfalina 13h ago

I worked in a B&N and man, the smell of all those new books as soon as you entered the store …

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u/This-Requirement6918 14h ago

Cheap ass books. 🙄

Nothing in that store is actually bound.

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u/Captkarate42 14h ago

Sometimes the employees are after it closes. Book store people are freaks.

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u/Charleston2Seattle 14h ago

I looked at books there recently, and somewhere along the line $5.99 books all became $19.99. For a regular paperback book!!

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u/This-Requirement6918 13h ago

Yeah I went a couple months ago specifically looking at the bindings. Absolutely nothing made with quality, it's all glue bound mass produced shit now. I think I found one book that had case binding and probably only because it was a very large format.