Questions tagged [books]
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What is the most comprehensive resource for querying french and english books having an ISBN code?
I would like to know if a repository of all known ISBN exists; either a worldwide database, or per country.
If there is no such downloadable database, among all the available API's for querying ...
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Where can I find a large list of English books published in the last 50 years?
I need a dataset of books by title with their respective authors. I have tried the library of congress, but it seems as though you need a subscription to access its data? Are there any other website ...
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Is there a database that provides lengths of books?
I want to test some hypotheses regarding the length of books and their review distributions. I imagine if the data exists, it probably records the number of pages per book, but words would be ideal. ...
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Public database of book titles?
I want my users to set their previously read books in my app.
Is there any database with easily accessible API where I can get up-to-date book titles?
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Original titles of books
Where can I get the original title of books, i.e. Marquez's book "100 Years of Solitude" has the original title "Cien Años de Soledad".
Some of the Hungarian publisher list this info, but especially ...
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A dataset for Google Books
Do you know if there is any (open) database for Google Books titles or texts? It could be used for text analysis and statistics.
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Looking for modern english texts in public domain / CC-BY-SA
Is there a library of public domain / CC-BY-SA english texts, written later than 1990? I need it to build a corpora with links to full texts, which isn't possible with copyrighted material. At the ...
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Where can I get data for the popularity of a book?
I need to collect some data to find the popularity of books.
The first thing that came in my mind was to find the number of sales of the books, but I soon found that the authors don't easily tell ...
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NY Times full weekly bestseller lists
Are there any open data compilations of NYT weekly bestseller lists? Other U.S.-centered bestseller lists would also be acceptable.
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Related Books API
I am looking for an API where I can search for a book and retrieve a list of books related to it. It would also be useful to have this kind of search for authors.
The Spotify API has a function just ...
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Novels with chapters annotated POV
I'm looking for one or more novels, that multiple characters points of view.
(I don't care if it is 3rd person or 1st person),
with each chapter (or paragraph) annotated as to which character's POV ...
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Data tables from Sorokin's Social and Cultural Dynamics
The title says it all, does there exist in digital form, like csv-files or spreadsheets, the (very many) data tables from Pitirim A Sorokin's Social and Cultural Dynamics, all four volumes:
I ...
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Public International Database of Literature Works?
There's a question about books: (Public database of book titles?), but what I'm looking for is actually a DB of literature works, not books.
For example, "Romeo and Juliet" is a single literature ...
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Data about writing as a hobby
I'm looking for information about what percentage of the population (in any Western country) write (literature) as a hobby. Either in the present day, or in historical development.
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Books and Supplies
"Books and Supplies" is a component of the Estimated Cost of Attendance. I would like to get only the "Books and Supplies" data for a given institution from the "College Scorecard" data.
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What bible translations into different languages are public domain?
It’s hard to find them, wondering if we could collect them here.
Amharic
Tibetan
Chinese
Greek
Inuktitut
Cheyenne
Pashto
Etc.
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Books by category published annually in Ireland
UNESCO monitors both the number and type of books published per country per year.
It's very intriguing for me to notice that Ireland is missing from this list.
I was wondering how can I get such ...
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Books with multiple main characters, one per chapter
I am looking for public domain, or creative commons fiction,
with:
multiple main characters,
written in 3rd person
Each chapter focuses on a particular character
Modern examples of such books ...
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Known datasets for long document analysis
Are there good baselines datasets or benchmarks for similarities/retrieval of long texts (extremely long documents, books, etc.)? Although significant both academically and applicational, I cannot get ...
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Is there a database of book/movie character descriptions
For a machine learning task, I want to use book character descriptions to learn the possible properties of people of characters. Does anyone know a database of descriptions of book/movie characters? ...
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English to Telugu and Telugu to English dictionary database
Data: Database of Telugu to English and vice versa language dictionary
Context: Need to make a Telugu to English and vice versa dictionary app.There should be quite some public domain dictionaries ...
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Movie plots and reviews dataset
Is there any dataset with movie plots and reviews (not only rating)?
I have had a look at the existing dataset, but they contain only one of the two (i.e. only plots or only reviews).
I would be ...
