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**UPDATE:** The Internet Archive has requested that this dataset be deleted (see [discussion #2](https://huggingface.co/datasets/storytracer/US-PD-Books/discussions/2)) because they consider
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I was able to recreate one subcollection from this dataset already (the [Library of Congress Selected Digitized Books](https://www.loc.gov/collections/selected-digitized-books)) as a separate full-text 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 declared to be in the public domain in the United States by the LoC.
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**UPDATE:** The Internet Archive has requested that this dataset be deleted (see [discussion #2](https://huggingface.co/datasets/storytracer/US-PD-Books/discussions/2)) because they consider the IA's metadata too unreliable to determine whether a book is in the public domain. To alleviate the IA's concerns, the full texts of the books have been removed from this dataset until a more reliable way to curate public domain books from the IA collections is established. The metadata and documentation remain for reference purposes.
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I was able to recreate one subcollection from this dataset already (the [Library of Congress Selected Digitized Books](https://www.loc.gov/collections/selected-digitized-books)) as a separate full-text 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 declared to be in the public domain in the United States by the LoC.
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