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The Kinda Creepy Mistakes People Are Finding In Google Book Scans

WORDS Posted: December 10, 2013 7:02 am

“Scavengers obsessively comb through page after page of Google Books, hoping to stumble upon some glitch that hasn’t yet been unearthed. This phenomenon is most thoroughly documented on a Tumblr called The Art of Google Books, which collects two types of images: analog stains that are emblems of a paper book’s history and digital glitches that result from the scanning.”

WORDS Published: 12.05.13, The New Yorker

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