The Art of Google Books

We all make mistakes at work, but most of us don’t have the misfortune of having a blog devoted to our errors. The folks working for Google’s book scanning project aren’t so lucky.

There’s a year old blog over on Tumblr called The Art of Google Books. This site, which now has over 15 thousand followers, lovingly records and explains the mis-scans, bunched up pages, and foreign objects in the scan images.

Take the image above, for example.

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