Skip to main content

That new book smell

Broadcast 
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume.
That new book smell

Books, new and old, have a particular smell but what we call that 'new book smell' isn't always the same from book to book and even publisher to publisher as Dr Karl Kruszelnicki explains.

More Information

This article contains content that is not available.

Credits

Broadcast 
Science and Technology
QR code image for downloading the ABC listen app

Discover more podcasts

Download the ABC listen app to hear more of your favourite podcasts
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/greatmomentsinscience/8037176
www.abc.net.au
CC-MAIN-2024-22
183975
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:V7HGTVFDSPAZ4A2556IXIIG6VSOBADMT
<urn:uuid:b1a8087a-0ea5-4052-9e57-e22c8c8bb9be>
2024-05-25T18:44:57Z
104.72.156.93
text/html
sha1:XW3ANHNYDMR7TI7KSXUKL44YPN6LDEBY
<urn:uuid:02bf78c7-66e8-45eb-bc41-03fe4690fe2c>
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/greatmomentsinscience/8037176
response
<urn:uuid:9f5e0efa-2158-4826-8152-fd052856d1d6>
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2024-22
publisher: Common Crawl
description: Wide crawl of the web for May 2024
operator: Common Crawl Admin (info@commoncrawl.org)
hostname: ip-10-67-67-212
software: Apache Nutch 1.19 (modified, https://github.com/commoncrawl/nutch/)
robots: checked via crawler-commons 1.5-SNAPSHOT (https://github.com/crawler-commons/crawler-commons)
format: WARC File Format 1.1
conformsTo: https://iipc.github.io/warc-specifications/specifications/warc-format/warc-1.1/