Google Book Search reveals scanner's sleight of hand
Ash
Oh dear lord... #
Posted Wednesday 5th December 2007 13:26 GMT

... Do Miss Hilton's lady-friends own some?
Coat and scalf following in short order.
supermeerkat
She appears to be wearing finger condoms.... #
Posted Wednesday 5th December 2007 13:26 GMT

The mind boggles.
Ian Ferguson
Does she use an iPhone? #
Posted Wednesday 5th December 2007 13:38 GMT

Those finger-condoms look just like the ones punted for clean iPhone screen usage.
Mountford D
HTH #
Posted Wednesday 5th December 2007 13:45 GMT
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 #
Posted Wednesday 5th December 2007 15:29 GMT

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 #
Posted Wednesday 5th December 2007 15:29 GMT

Nah, not an artefact. You're looking at a close-up of Miss June 1855 - "Tana, the naughty colonial nurse"
Keith T
Wrong Title #
Posted Wednesday 5th December 2007 18:05 GMT

I've come to expect more from the Reg with the headlines.
How about:
"Google Book scanner fingered." ?
David
Her fingers look burnt. #
Posted Thursday 6th December 2007 02:29 GMT
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 : #
Posted Wednesday 12th December 2007 23:48 GMT

"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.