I also had trouble with the stench of a Harry Potter book’s (I can’t remember which installment, but it definitely was one of them) pages, although mine was a paperback; I don’t know exactly what was causing the smell, but it reminded me of when I was poisoned with campylobacter a few years prior to reading the book (I can’t remember which installment, but it definitely was one of them.) I felt so sick while reading the book that I can’t even remember finishing it... or if I finished it.
Oh yeah, and the sex education books at school. :barf: