THE ARTFUL ACCIDENTS OF GOOGLE BOOKS

It was really fascinating to read about how Google Books is transforming the way we interact and gather information from these scanned pages. Now with Google Books growing and becoming more popular to gather information quickly, people are starting to take notice of the mistakes or glitches that appear throughout many of these books. Some of the issues are from the specific book itself. The book might be old and have rips and tears that will now be forever documented. The interesting mistakes are the ones done by the google workers themselves. Their jobs are to scan all the pages of the books and through constant scanning it is easy to make a mistake and accidentally scan your hand. Another issue with these Google Books are coming from the scanner. Some of the images appear rasterized due to the scanning process. If the future of books is for them to all be scanned to Google then books will have these new issues that physical books do not. I think it is very interesting how each scanned book on google already has a story of its own. People may wonder how that stain on page 211 got there or how was that page torn. Reading these books will not only give you information through the text but also the history and the process the book went through to be available on your screen.