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The Distant Reader

Reading articles and books at scale

A command-line application and Web-based service enabling students, researchers, and scholars to read articles and books at scale.

Who is it for?

Explore & Create

Browse the "stacks" — a collection of 1.7 million open access articles and etexts ("books"); sample data for building study carrels.

Search the catalog — almost all of the stacks data described and indexed.

Browse the collection of 4,200 study carrels — sample data gone to the next level.

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