Context

The dataset was extracted from the wonderful portal of Project Guttenberg to develop a short story recommendation engine . The idea that was being explored was, that we have Spotify for music and Netflix for movies but can we develop a great recommendation application for reading. The dataset is supposed to be used to experiment with various similarity algorithms and metrics to help develop a great user short story reading recommendation and open it for free to a wider audience. The project is open on Github at https://github.com/shubchat/Readnet.

Acknowledgements

My deep thanks and respect for the team of volunteers at https://www.gutenberg.org/ .It is their inspiring effort to aggregate and maintain the open literature that is serving millions of people who love reading but don't have access to resources. If you are using this dataset please consider donating to this wonderful cause at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Project_Gutenberg_Needs_Your_Donation

Permissions on how to

Please refer to the guidance from project Gutenberg at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Permission_How-To for details.