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**UPDATE:** The Internet Archive has requested for this dataset to be deleted (see [discussion #2](https://huggingface.co/datasets/storytracer/US-PD-Books/discussions/2)) because they consider the IA metadata too unreliable to determine whether a book in their collections is in the public domain in the United States. To alleviate their concerns, the full texts of the books have been removed from this dataset. The metadata and documentation remain for reference purposes until a more reliable way to curate public domain books from the IA collections is established.
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I was able to curate one subcollection from this dataset, the Library of Congress books, in a separate dataset using the LoC API and OCR: https://huggingface.co/datasets/storytracer/LoC-PD-Books. The LoC dataset contains 140,000 books (~10 billion words) which have been determined to be in the public domain in the United States by the LoC.
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# US Public Domain Books (English)
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This dataset contains more than 650,000 English books (~ 61 billion words) presumed to be in the public domain in the US which were digitised by the [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/books) and catalogued as part of the [Open Library](https://openlibrary.org/) project. The dataset was compiled by [Sebastian Majstorovic](https://www.storytracer.org).
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**UPDATE:** The Internet Archive has requested for this dataset to be deleted (see [discussion #2](https://huggingface.co/datasets/storytracer/US-PD-Books/discussions/2)) because they consider the IA metadata too unreliable to determine whether a book in their collections is in the public domain in the United States. To alleviate their concerns, the full texts of the books have been removed from this dataset. The metadata and documentation remain for reference purposes until a more reliable way to curate public domain books from the IA collections is established.
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I was able to curate one subcollection from this dataset, the Library of Congress books, in a separate dataset using the LoC API and OCR: https://huggingface.co/datasets/storytracer/LoC-PD-Books. The LoC dataset contains 140,000 books (~10 billion words) which have been determined to be in the public domain in the United States by the LoC.
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# US Public Domain Books (English)
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This dataset contains more than 650,000 English books (~ 61 billion words) presumed to be in the public domain in the US which were digitised by the [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/books) and catalogued as part of the [Open Library](https://openlibrary.org/) project. The dataset was compiled by [Sebastian Majstorovic](https://www.storytracer.org).
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