Answer by Tom Morris for Is there a database that provides lengths of books?
You can get page counts from OpenLibrary and word counts from the linked editions on Internet Archive. Of course the latter is only going to be for public domain editions and if you are focused on...
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You may want to scrap the gutenberg project. They do not dispose of an api, which would force you to develop your own scraper/parser, but all books available are easily readable by machine (see this...
View ArticleAnswer by Tasos for Is there a database that provides lengths of books?
For the words count, maybe you could use the Google Books Ngrams (in your case 1gram). The dataset is available free in Amazon in this link
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Here is a python snippet to scrape the page count from Amazon. You'll have to manually add links to the list (just one link now), or read a file of amazon links, or find a way to get lots of links into...
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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. If...
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