Datasets ▶ Google Books
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Google Books [gbooks]
❌ Not available directly in bulk, protected against scraping.
👩‍💻 Anna’s Archive manages a collection of Google Books metadata.
❌ Most files are closely guarded. We will award a $200k bounty if you can get the full collection.
2024-09-20

Volunteer “j” has managed a large scrape of Google Books metadata.

Metadata is good to have, but the real goal is to get their actual scans. In 2019 Google claimed to have scanned 40 million books. Since the AI race heated up in late 2022, it is to be expected that Google has increased their rate of scanning. We will award a $200k bounty if you can get the full collection.

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