Captured page-turning motion gives dynamism to the printed plate.
From p. 106 of With Hound and Terrier in the Field: Hunting Reminisces by Alys F. Serrell (1904). Original from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Digitized September 11, 2009.
May 31, 2012
May 30, 2012
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
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 26, 2012
Turning pages.
From p. 130-133 (?) of Essays on the Duty of Parents and Children by Cyrus Comstock (1810). Original from Harvard University. Digitized September 15, 2007.
May 25, 2012
Turning pages.
From p. 16-17 (?) of Select Stories for Children (1810). Original from Oxford University. Digitized September 11, 2007.
May 14, 2012
“This image is from the book An Individual Note of Music, Sound and Electronics (1972) by Daphne Oram. I found the file at Monoskop, a fantastic archive of writings on art, culture and media technology.”
Submitted by an anonymous finder.
May 10, 2012
Marbled paper digitized in black and white, with movement.
From the back matter of The Universal Songster, or, Museum of Mirth, v. 2, ills. by George and Robert Cruikshank (1826). Original from the Bavarian State Library. Digitized September 27, 2011.
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 20, 2012
“The last 200 pages or so are unable to be read due a lot of movement.”
Submitted by Krista Dukes, of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Hypermedia: Futures of Reading.
Throughout United States Catalog: Supplement by the H. W. Wilson Company (1921). Original from the University of California. Digitized November 13, 2010.
April 20, 2012
“This is one of my earliest findings. I like the warped appearance of the previous page as it was being turned because the extreme distortion illustrates the transformation that takes place during the conversion of the media.”
Submitted by Harold Stuart, of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Hypermedia: Futures of Reading.
From p. 826 (?) of Sunset, v. 32 by the Southern Pacific Company (1914). Original from the University of Michigan. Digitized May 17, 2006.
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 12, 2012
“This page in Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott was scanned when the page was not in the proper position. We can barely read anything on this page.”
Discovered by gabbiwhite2 of John Crooks’s UC Irvine course Digital Media: Current Directions (Arts 12 of Google Books).
From p. 113 (?) of Eight Cousins: or, The Aunt-Hill by Louisa May Alcott (1875). Original from Oxford University. Digitized July 24, 2006.
April 11, 2012
“The scan of this page is blurred on the left side, as if too bright a light messed up the shot. The sentence that starts just before and on the blurred page says, “Who are responsible for the for the introduction of venereal disaeses into marriage and the consequent (unreadable text) of the lives of innocent women and children?” It’s as if Google didn’t want us to know…”
Submitted by Sam Manno, of Dr. Terry Harpold’s University of Florida course Hypermedia: Futures of Reading.
From p. 24 of Rational Sex Ethics by Walter Franklin Robie (1918). Does not include metadata indicating library of origination or date of digitization.
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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