always with a certain smell

you know someone has read the book you are reading, 

they have flipped through the pages 

and gifted them to you 

so you could enjoy it. 

you can see if they have written little notes 

to summarize their own intimate thoughts 

or when a page was folded. 

sometimes you can even be transported 

to their time and place 

by seeing sand imprints 

or coffee stains. 

I love what is a used bookstore.