Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

words removed
75,911
marks left
15,294
words a sentence
25.4
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 Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin. More twins

Benjamin Franklin on the shelf

3 books by Benjamin Franklin are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 3 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for William James. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Benjamin Franklin's punctuation is closest to Marcel Proust's.

Benjamin Franklin's average fingerprint

Benjamin Franklin on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookBenjamin Franklin's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons11.415.57.2
Commas96.2102.576.6
Colons0.92.31.6
Exclamation marks0.40.62.8
Question marks0.41.63.7
Words per sentence25.425.817.0
Dialogue8%17%22%

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

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