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Hand of Google It's not a new thing that sometimes the hand of the digitizer can be seen on scans available on Google Books. The Register and many other newssites and blogs have already talked about it. But now Google's hand has been spotted in Munich. The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (Bavarian State Library) has a widely discussed agreement with Google Books since a few years about scanning millions of books from that library. The institutional database bears very nice scans of the hand of google in action. Take a look at "Bechstein, Ludwig: Deutsches Museum für Geschichte, Literatur, Kunst und Alterthumsforschung (1842)". Flip the pages, and you will see why Google is called Kraken ... so many hands ;-).