How to Read a Whole HathiTrust Collection

This Web pages outlines a process to use and understand ("read") the whole of a HathiTrust collection. Such a process is outlined here: 1) articulate a research question, 2)search the "Trust and create a collection, 3) download the collection file and refine it, or at the least, remove duplicates, 4) use the result as input to htid2books; download the full text of each item, 5) use Reader Toolbox to build a "study carrel"; create a data set, 6) compute against the data set to address the research question, and 7) go to Step #1; repeat iteratively