Computationally Identifying Similar Books in Project Gutenberg

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As one of the first digital libraries, Project Gutenberg has lived through a few generations of computers, digitization techniques, and textual infrastructures. It’s not surprising, then, that the corpus is fairly messy. Early transcriptions of some electronic texts, hand-keyed using only uppercase letters, were succeeded by better transcriptions, but without replacing the early versions. As such,…

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