Different Strokes

Yesterday I was having a conversation with a woman when it came up that I worked at a library. She seemed surprised and asked "Is it busy? Do people still go to libraries?". I emphatically answered that yes, we were busy. As I look around me now--all of our Internet accessible computers are busy, there are several people using our WiFI, several people reading newspapers, and many general browsers in our book, DVD, and CD stacks, and this is all on a snowy Tuesday morning (not one of our busier times). The woman added "but the library in my town stinks!" (She meant that it had an odor, not that it was a poor quality library.) Another woman standing nearby said that she recently decided that it was ridiculous for her to be buying all of her own books and started using the library. She said she loved the smell of the library because it smelled of old books--a smell she could appreciate. She added that she could never use a hand held device, such as a Kindle, because she would miss that smell. What do you think--pleasantly fragrant or smelly?