Doompiper, yes this probably stems from me sniffing books since I was a young child. There is something about the smell of old library books that gives me an intellectual boner.
My two dreamjobs are being a librarian or a museum curator. I would take either over a writing gig in music, or being a rockstar even (mostly because I don't like the idea of anything I have to do with music being a "job" and being exposed to possibility of becoming a chore).