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Google Book Search reveals scanner's sleight of hand

Ash

Oh dear lord... 

Paris Hilton

... Do Miss Hilton's lady-friends own some?

Coat and scalf following in short order.

supermeerkat

She appears to be wearing finger condoms.... 

Alert

The mind boggles.

Ian Ferguson

Does she use an iPhone? 

Gates Halo

Those finger-condoms look just like the ones punted for clean iPhone screen usage.

Mountford D

HTH 

I know I should be coming up with a comment a la mode El Reg but seriously folks, they are finger grips. It's a thinner version of the rubber thimbles used by bank tellers to count large wads of cash and a more hygienic way of gripping paper than licking your fingers. And yes, it's the same material as condoms: rubber.

Anonymous Coward

@HTH 

Stop

Thanks. We already knew that, after the story about the over-expensive iPhone fingerbobs. That's why all those guys were making jokes about it, yeh?

HTH back atcha!

Anonymous Coward

Gentleman's magazine - says it all 

Coat

Nah, not an artefact. You're looking at a close-up of Miss June 1855 - "Tana, the naughty colonial nurse"

Keith T

Wrong Title 

Coat

I've come to expect more from the Reg with the headlines.

How about:

"Google Book scanner fingered." ?

David

Her fingers look burnt. 

Exposing one's fingers to a photocopy machine day after day, results in red fingers and other possible side affects.

Daniel

Overheard at the googlecopier : 

Unhappy

"only another 675 pages to go ...... and then I get to start on Rob Roy."

It may not quite be the most boring job in the world, but it most be close. Stock options and free flying lessons or not.