Turning pages and employee’s finger autocorrected with text.
From p. 12-13 (?) of A Treatise on the Hair by James Woodman (1835). Original from Oxford University. Digitized April 7, 2006.
May 30, 2012
May 30, 2012
Page with Lane Medical Library bookplate turned by ethereal hands.
From the front matter of Diseases of Hair by Benjamin Godfrey (1872). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include Stanford library artifacts).
May 29, 2012
An employee’s finger and ring distorted by movement.
From p. li (?) of The Sia by Matilda Coxe Stevenson (1894). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization (but does include Stanford library artifacts).
May 22, 2012
Employee holds in paper ephemera.
From the front matter of Newspaper Accounts by Benjamin T. Norton (1895). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized October 26, 2007.
May 14, 2012
Selective autocorrect of employee’s fingertip.
From p. 256 of The Satyrs of Decimus Junius Juvinalis: and of Aulus Persius Flaccus, trans. Dryden, et. al. (1735). Original from Oxford University. Digitized October 11, 2007.
May 11, 2012
“Apparently the front and back cover of the book.” An employee with orange nail polish and a cut on the ring finger.
Discovered by karinotsuka of John Crooks’s UC Irvine course Digital Media: Current Directions (Arts 12 of Google Books).
From The Beaux Strategem: A Comedy by Geroge Farquhar (1791). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized September 27, 2011.
May 10, 2012
The shadow of a hand dissolves the link to page 84.
From the table of contents to The Collapse of Capitalism by Herman Cahn (1919). Original from Harvard University. Digitized May 5, 2008.
April 30, 2012
Employee’s hand corrected to white; page split with a false digital gutter.
From p. 2-3 (?) of A Select Collection of Poems, from Admired Authors and Scarce Miscellanies (1790). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized November 27, 2006.
April 17, 2012
The resting hand.
From p.27 of The Irish Historical Library by William Nicholson and and Edward Lhuyd (1724). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized August 2, 2005.
April 17, 2012
“The best find is in slides 4 and 5, where you can see the hands of the employee turning the pages.”
Submitted by John Abbott, of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Hypermedia: Futures of Reading.
From the front matter of The Beta Theta Pi, v.27 (1899). Original from the New York Public Library. Digitized October 5, 2006.
April 16, 2012
The bottom edge of each page left uncropped.
Throughout The Witch Man by Margaret Belle Houston (1922). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization.
April 9, 2012
“Poor scanning renders the page completely illegible and results in a kind of chaotic textual whirlpool.”
Submitted by Chris Hawley, of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Hypermedia: Futures of Reading.
From p. 12 and 13 (?) of Rules of Poker (1882). Original from Oxford University. Digitized August 2, 2006.
April 9, 2012
“This is an extremely short text with an error on every page. I love the psychedelic fingers of the workers in the corner, page after page…”
Submitted by Heather Conduzzi, of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Hypermedia: Futures of Reading.
From Thyroid Secretion as a Factor in Adrenal Activity by Roy Graham Hoskins (1910). Original from Harvard University. Digitized April 23, 2008.
April 9, 2012
Submitted by C. T. Douglas, of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Hypermedia: Futures of Reading.
From p. 162 (?) of Queer Pets and Their Doings by Olive Thorne Miller (1885). Original from Oxford University. Digitized May 8, 2006.
April 9, 2012
“The pixelated appearance of the hand causes it to resemble what a hand would look like if generated by a old computer.”
Submitted by Harold Stuart, of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Hypermedia: Futures of Reading.
From p. 485 of Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, v. 1, by Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (1903). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized March 28, 2006.
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