Millions of books were published over a hundred years ago, and are no longer subject to copyright. Of these millions of books, only a handful are well known today. The rest are obscure books that hardly anyone reads anymore. These books are also woefully out of date in their content and stories, many of them containing refuted information or offensive stereotypes.
Since the vast majority of books published in the 1920’s or earlier are out of copyright, I think it would be a fun project to edit some of these books to modernize their content. This would include updating non-fiction books to reflect more correct information, removing offensive stereotypes, and even flipping genders in fictional stories.
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