@avclub-ac5c482277858d6fe45065d0a3f92b0c:disqus I got my then-girlfriend to check out a brand-new copy of Cat's Cradle from our school library. I made her return it the next day and let her borrow my copy from the 70s, on the grounds that the new one didn't smell right. Luckily, she understood once she smelled the old…