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pre_1929_books_filtered

added string	id string	metadata dict	source string	text string
2024-06-13T11:23:23.273079	askaroskassiscop00deleiala	{"author":"De Leon, Edwin, 1828-1891.","hathi_url":"https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/(...TRUNCATED)	public_library	"PREFACE. \nAS the East was the cradle of the human race — the fountain whence modern civilization(...TRUNCATED)
2024-06-13T11:23:23.367137	taxationarticles00bemarich	{"author":"Beman, Lamar T. 1877-1938.","hathi_url":"https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/(...TRUNCATED)	public_library	"EXPLANATORY NOTE \nThe tremendous burden of war debt that is now borne by our federal government, t(...TRUNCATED)
2024-06-13T11:23:23.461623	proceedingsofcon00roya	{"author":"Royal Arch Masons. Grand Chapter (N.C.),","hathi_url":"https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/p(...TRUNCATED)	public_library	"HIS Company insures the lives of indi-\|s viduals fur one vear, a term of years, or \|\| forlife,onthe(...TRUNCATED)
2024-06-13T11:23:23.546823	firstreportofman00alle	{"author":"Allegheny Cemetery (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)","hathi_url":"https://babel.hathitrust.org/(...TRUNCATED)	public_library	"\"If there be one object more material, more revolting, more gloomy than another, it is a crowded c(...TRUNCATED)
2024-06-13T11:23:23.555867	panaillinoissome00reid	{"author":null,"hathi_url":"https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiuo.ark:/13960/t1wd3xm8h","htid"(...TRUNCATED)	public_library	"before it became the home of the white man. \nIn consequence it is one of the older cities in tlie (...TRUNCATED)
2024-06-13T11:23:23.565178	oratorybeecher00beeciala	{"author":"Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887.","hathi_url":"https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.(...TRUNCATED)	public_library	"DELIVERED BEFORE THB \nNATIONAL SCHOOL OF ELOCUTION AND ORATORY UPON THB OCCASION OF ITS THIRD ANN(...TRUNCATED)
2024-06-13T11:23:23.576490	guymanneringorgi00terr	{"author":"Terry, Daniel, 1780?-1829.","hathi_url":"https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/(...TRUNCATED)	public_library	"drab coloured great coat, check shirt. &o DIRK H.A.TTKRAICK.— Brown (Dutch) jacket and breeches. (...TRUNCATED)
2024-06-13T11:23:23.590388	essentialsofbook00chilrich	{"author":"Childs, C. W.","hathi_url":"https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t39022d(...TRUNCATED)	public_library	"It is cnstomaiy to apologize to the public when presenting a new book for their consideration. The (...TRUNCATED)
2024-06-13T11:23:23.619305	christamongcattl00marvrich	{"author":"Marvin, Frederic Rowland, 1847-1918.","hathi_url":"https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id(...TRUNCATED)	public_library	"/ have read the excellent sermon by Frederic R. Marvin with hearty approval. The sooner we recogniz(...TRUNCATED)
2024-06-13T11:23:23.625426	dreamsofdarkness00unterich	{"author":"Untermeyer, Jean Starr, 1886-1970.","hathi_url":"https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=u(...TRUNCATED)	public_library	"4684.14 \nFor the privilege of reprinting many of the poems in this volume, the author thanks the e(...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
124,898	46.3

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 "filtered" version of Pre-1929 Books dataset. If you are looking for the raw version, 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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Common Pile v0.1 Filtered Data

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An LLM pre-training dataset produced by filtering and deduplicating the raw text collected in the Common Pile v0.1 • 31 items • Updated 3 days ago • 10