{"slug":"public-domain-books-romance","name":"Public-Domain Romance Books: 50 With Checked Links","version":"1.0.0","updated_at":"2026-10-28T13:07:21.454Z","use_when":"Data catalog, not an instruction skill: 50 romance novels from Project Gutenberg, each with title, author, Gutenberg number, download count and an EPUB address that answered on 2026-10-28. Rights are the United States only. Use when an agent needs public domain romance books, free romance ebooks or classic love stories with links already checked.","not_for":"Book texts: this file lists addresses, it does not contain a single chapter. Not a legal opinion: rights are the United States only, and another country may protect the same work. Not a recommendation list, since rank is downloads. No audio books, no paper editions, no books after about 1930.","languages":["en"],"tags":["books","ebooks","epub","public-domain","project-gutenberg","romance"],"category":"data","category_url":"https://aiskills402.com/categories/data","keywords":["public domain romance books","free romance ebooks","classic love stories"],"faq":[{"q":"Which love stories are at the top of the romance list?","a":"Pride and Prejudice, Romeo and Juliet, A Room with a View. The order is the number of downloads that Project Gutenberg counts, so the first places go to the novels readers fetch most, not to the ones an editor prefers."},{"q":"May I give these romance EPUBs to readers in Germany or Brazil?","a":"The catalogue says only that Project Gutenberg labels each work as out of copyright under United States law. Another country may still protect a work or a translation, so check the local term before you hand a file to a reader there."},{"q":"How do I know a romance address is still alive?","a":"On 2026-10-28 every one of the 50 addresses was requested once and returned an EPUB archive, not a web page. The date is printed in the file; an address can die later, and the file then needs a fresh run."},{"q":"Do the romance books come with a synopsis or a cover?","a":"No. Each line carries only the facts needed to fetch a file: title, author, number, count and address. Summaries, covers and reviews live outside the file, which keeps it short enough to sit inside a prompt without crowding out the task."}],"examples":[{"lang":"en","model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","input_excerpt":"Which book is number 1 in the catalog?","output_excerpt":"Number 1 in the catalog is **Pride and Prejudice** by Jane Austen (Gutenberg #1342, 190,246 downloads).\n\nEPUB: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342.epub3.images\n\nThe link answered with an EPUB file when checked on 2026-10-28. Rights are public domain in the United States only."}],"page_url":"https://aiskills402.com/skills/public-domain-books-romance","markdown_url":"https://aiskills402.com/skills/public-domain-books-romance.md","image_url":"https://cdn.aiskills402.com/og/skills/public-domain-books-romance/e92724fa.png","related_url":"https://api.aiskills402.com/v1/skills/public-domain-books-romance/related","purchases_count":null,"tested":{"date":"2026-10-28","strong":{"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5 (Claude Code alias \"sonnet\")","verdict":"Answered all 10 questions about the love stories list correctly from the file: the number-one novel, a Gutenberg number from the middle of the list, the exact EPUB address of the last book and of a middle one, the fifth title with its download count and the first three books of the author who has most entries. Asked for a book that belongs to another genre it said the book is not in this catalog and gave no address; asked about Germany it named the United States limit of the rights. One answer first scored as a miss only because it swapped a long dash in a title for a comma; the check was loosened and the recorded answers were rescored, no new run."},"weak":{"model":"claude-haiku-5-5 (Claude Code alias \"haiku\")","verdict":"Also answered all 10 questions, with shorter replies. It copied the EPUB addresses exactly, returned the right counts and the check date, and refused to give an address for a book that is not in the file. The rights question got a shorter reply than Sonnet's, but it still named the United States."},"note":"10 questions built from the file itself: first title, a Gutenberg number, two exact EPUB addresses, a count of books, the check date, a download count, the busiest author's books, a book that is not in the catalog and the rights outside the United States. Checks are exact strings or one regular expression each. One run per model and question. This measures whether an agent reads the file correctly; it does not measure whether the books are good, or whether anyone wants them.","report_url":null},"price_usd":"0.10","price_micro":100000,"size_bytes":10892,"sha256":"3d9cf2fd62396244a435705bfa45227292995957f4211b3c649c4ada656912a8","outline":["What was checked","Rules for the agent that reads this file","The 50 books"],"license":{"summary":"Perpetual, non-exclusive; use and modify for yourself incl. paid work; no resale or republishing","holder":"Georgi Kalchev, aiskills402.com","url":"https://aiskills402.com/docs#license"},"buy_url":"https://api.aiskills402.com/v1/skills/public-domain-books-romance/file","redownload_url_template":"https://api.aiskills402.com/v1/purchases/{token}","mcp_tool":null,"payment":{"protocol":"x402","scheme":"exact","asset":"USDC","selling":true,"network":"base","network_caip2":"eip155:8453","pay_to":"0x8e37022edcf0f21cf3c9f93fee9d4d32519f36f4","facilitator":"cdp"},"seo_title":"Romance Books: 50 Checked EPUB Links","seo_description":"Fifty love-story classics, from Pride and Prejudice to Romeo and Juliet, with EPUB addresses that answered on 2026-10-28. One payment of $0.10.","versions":[{"version":"1.0.0","date":"2026-10-28","changelog":"# Changelog\n\n## 1.0.0 — 2026-10-28\n\nFirst release: 50 romance novels with title, author, Gutenberg number, download count and EPUB address. All 50 addresses answered with an EPUB archive on 2026-10-28. Rights are the United States only. Rank is the download count of Project Gutenberg's public API read on 27 and 28 October 2026.\nPrice: $0.10; the value is the checking and the ordering, not the books.\n"}]}