diff --git a/translate_epub.py b/translate_epub.py
index 4accf5a..e948905 100644
--- a/translate_epub.py
+++ b/translate_epub.py
@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ from tqdm import tqdm
 # ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 # Configuration Defaults
 # ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+import os
+os.environ["HF_TOKEN"] = "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"
+
 DEFAULT_MODEL_ID = "Qwen/Qwen2.5-72B-Instruct"
 CHUNK_SIZE = 5            # paragraphs per inference call
 MAX_NEW_TOKENS = 8192     # max tokens the model generates per chunk