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The Darker Side of Digitization – Leah Henrickson (NO LONGER UPDATED)

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As I was perusing the Google Book scans available at the HathiTrust Digital Library, I came across a couple of hands, inconveniently blocking the pages I wanted to read. It turns out that other peo…

As I was perusing the Google Book scans available at the HathiTrust Digital Library , I came across a couple of hands, inconveniently blocking the pages I wanted to read. It turns out that other people have also run into these Google hands. In December, Kenneth Goldsmith of The New Yorker wrote an article called “The Artful Accidents of Google Books,” in which he notes a couple of people ( Benjamin Shaykin , Paul Soulellis , and Andrew Norman Wilson , to name some) who have studied Google’s “artful accidents,” or have even made art exhibits out of them. There&#821

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