A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive

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411,367
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words a sentence
32.7
most used mark
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Its punctuation fingerprint: each mark's share, on the same scale as every book on the shelf.

Its punctuation twin, the closest fingerprint on the shelf: The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3), Arthur Schopenhauer. More twins

John Stuart Mill on the shelf

5 books by John Stuart Mill are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 5th closest of the 5 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Francis Bacon. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, John Stuart Mill's punctuation is closest to Thomas Paine's.

John Stuart Mill's average fingerprint

John Stuart Mill on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookJohn Stuart Mill's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons11.59.47.2
Commas82.976.776.6
Colons2.62.31.6
Exclamation marks0.00.02.8
Question marks0.91.23.7
Words per sentence32.736.017.0
Dialogue9%3%22%

Every mark in reading order, left to right, top to bottom. Sentence endings are pink.

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