I dont like how Google Books crops out the fingers of their technicians and fills the gap however they like. It is not labeled as edited, and my students can't always tell what it is that they are seeing. Is it a repair? Sometimes it blurs information like marginalia.
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@libcolleen This always makes me think of Bonnie Mak’s discussions of the ways that scanning labor is elided. As if seeing a human finger is somehow a far worse thing to subject readers to than this mess
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@libcolleen Definitely blurring information and the hands of the people digitizing which are often the hands of people of color. I very much enjoyed this zine about that general idea called... Hand Job
http://alizaelk.in/digitize/
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@jessamyn I remember that from Twitter, but I couldn't find it again. Thank you!
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Chilling project, one of the best ways of making invisible labor visible ive ever seen, thanks for sharing
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@jessamyn this is amazing work, thanks for sharing it!
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@libcolleen that reminds me of a glorious thread by @dbellingradt
"Welcome to the complex digital narrative of old printed books"
https://historians.social/@dbellingradt/111980945139369398
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It's like there's something shameful about humans doing work
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