Or does it have to do with paper, binding, font, ink, its weight in your hands, the smell of the pages?

或者它与纸张、装订、字体、墨水、它在你手中的重量、页面的气味有关吗？

For the most part they were in paper bindings, some of them neat enough, but more with broken backs and dingy edges; they were set along the shelves in serried rows, untidily, without method or plan.

它们大部分是纸装订的，其中一些还算整洁，但更多的是断背和脏边；它们沿着架子排成一排，杂乱无章，没有方法或计划。