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[–] veeesix@lemmy.ca 18 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Guessing it’s the acid from the paper that was blocked

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My thought was something to do with the lignins.

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn't it be the tannins? Either way, the paper is reacting somehow.

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

No idea, not a chemist or biologist. Just read/heard about lignins, it does lend a smell from what I understand, but they’re both part of plants, so… both?

[–] GrabtharsHammer@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] JaymesRS@piefed.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That was my guess too.

I read sooo many SW (legends) books in the 90’s

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I was born in 89, so not exactly the age demographic for them at the time haha.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You weren't a kid in the 90s? That's when I got into them.

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Would have been 7 when this one came out, little out of the capabilities of most kids that age.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They're not exactly Tolstoy, and most of the books I read and have read didn't come out the same year I read them.

I guess that's neither here nor there now, it being thirty years later of course. I don't mean to get into an argument about it, but of course it's the internet and some instincts are harder than others to reign in. Hopefully you enjoy them now as much as I did then :D

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Just saying your expectations for what grade 2ers are able to read are a little high. They would be minimum grade 5-6 level before a kid would comprehend the material.

My kids are literally this age right now, they enjoy hearing the stories, but they can’t read them. The older one in grade 5. Just starting Harry Potter. That’s the demographic. Which puts that at 10 years, or 99 and no longer that decade really.

And yes I am enjoying them, reading them in chronological order. So almost onto the last Era

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I guess the kids who I bummed (re:stole 😓) them from in third grade were above their level.

I'm sure I didn't comprehend all of it, but that didn't stop me from trying :) Sometimes it's better to punch above your level just so you push yourself.

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Ding ding ding.

[–] hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago
[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Stop rifling through my books.