An encyclopedia of once-common things passing us by.

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I met Rachael Morrison when we both spoke about the future of printed books at the Adult Education lecture series in Brooklyn in October. She is an artist and a librarian who is currently working at smelling all the books at the MOMA library. I was intrigued by the way in which her project questions how we relate emotionally to media that is obsolescing. In this week’s New York Magazine’s Reasons To Love New York issue, I wrote about her under this “reason”: Because We’re Home to a Woman Who Spends Her Days Smelling Books Sometimes, Morrison told me, she day dreams about some future person finding her scent notebook. “Assuming all text has gone digital at that point, I wonder if he or she will think it’s strange or even gross that books once had a smell,” she said. “What will my notebook smell like?”

I met Rachael Morrison when we both spoke about the future of printed books at the Adult Education lecture series in Brooklyn in October. She is an artist and a librarian who is currently working at smelling all the books at the MOMA library. I was intrigued by the way in which her project questions how we relate emotionally to media that is obsolescing. In this week’s New York Magazine’s Reasons To Love New York issue, I wrote about her under this “reason”: Because We’re Home to a Woman Who Spends Her Days Smelling Books

Sometimes, Morrison told me, she day dreams about some future person finding her scent notebook. “Assuming all text has gone digital at that point, I wonder if he or she will think it’s strange or even gross that books once had a smell,” she said. “What will my notebook smell like?”

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