biglam/blbooks-parquet

Dataset Card for British Library Books This dataset is the same as https://huggingface.co/datasets/TheBritishLibrary/blbooks, however, this version is stored as parquet to avoid needing to run a datasets script. This also makes loading this dataset much quicker. Dataset Summary This dataset consists of books digitised by the British Library in partnership with Microsoft. The dataset includes ~25 million pages of out of copyright texts. The majority of the texts… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/biglam/blbooks-parquet.