Yes, make a habit of keeping all library books in an enclosed space - a box, or a drawer, something you can close. Even a flat tupperware container would do, anything to mask the smell. Often library books are reinforced or glued with extra stuff, or covered with extra plastic - something is making it Marta tempting!

Paul's childhood dog was even more picky - she preferred to chew up "Make Way for Ducklings," - she would pick that one book out of a shelf of other books, and proceed to chew it up every time. And of course Paul, who grew up not only here in the Boston area, but next to the river where lots of mallards lived, loved that book so his parents ended up buying several copies.