Books published in the US before 1929 passed into the public domain on January 1, 2024.
We used the bibliographic catalog Hathifiles produced by HathiTrust to identify digitized books which were published in the US before 1929.
The collection contains over 130,000 books digitized and processed by the Internet Archive on behalf of HathiTrust member libraries.
The OCR plain text files were downloaded directly from the Internet Archive website.… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/common-pile/pre_1929_books_filtered.
