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pre_1929_books

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proceedingsofcon00roya	"\n\n\nTHE LIBRARY OF THE \nUNIVERSITY OF \nNORTH CAROLINA \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFROM THE LIBRAR(...TRUNCATED)	public_library	2024-06-13T11:23:23.461623	{"title":"Proceedings of a convention of Royal Arch Masons, held in Wilmington, North Carolina, on M(...TRUNCATED)
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dreamsofdarkness00unterich	"DREAMS OUT OF DARKNESS \n\n\nDREAMS \nOUT OF DARKNESS \n\nJEAN STARR UNTERMEYER \n\n(...TRUNCATED)	public_library	2024-06-13T11:23:23.625426	{"title":"Dreams out of darkness [by] Jean Starr Untermeyer.","author":"Untermeyer, Jean Starr, 1886(...TRUNCATED)

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Pre-1929 Books

Description

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.

Dataset Statistics

Documents	UTF-8 GB
137,127	73.8

License Issues

While we aim to produce datasets with completely accurate licensing information, license laundering and inaccurate metadata can cause us to erroneously assign the incorrect license to some documents (for further discussion of this limitation, please see our paper). If you believe you have found an instance of incorrect licensing in this dataset, please start a discussion on this repository.

Other Versions

This is the "raw" version of Pre-1929 Books dataset. If you are looking for the filtered version used to train Comma v0.1, you can find it here.

Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite:

@article{kandpal2025common,
  title={{The Common Pile v0.1: An 8TB Dataset of Public Domain and Openly Licensed Text}},
  author={Nikhil Kandpal and Brian Lester and Colin Raffel and Sebastian Majstorovic and Stella Biderman and Baber Abbasi and Luca Soldaini and Enrico Shippole and A. Feder Cooper and Aviya Skowron and Shayne Longpre and Lintang Sutawika and Alon Albalak and Zhenlin Xu and Guilherme Penedo and Loubna Ben  and Elie Bakouch and John David  and Honglu Fan and Dashiell Stander and Guangyu Song and Aaron Gokaslan and John Kirchenbauer and Tom Goldstein and Brian R and Bhavya Kailkhura and Tyler Murray},
  journal={arXiv preprint},
  year={2025}
}

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