Essays of Schopenhauer

words removed
73,294
marks left
10,843
words a sentence
28.7
most used mark
,

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: As a Man Thinketh, James Allen. More twins

Arthur Schopenhauer on the shelf

3 books by Arthur Schopenhauer 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 Ralph Waldo Emerson. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Arthur Schopenhauer's punctuation is closest to Julius Caesar's.

Arthur Schopenhauer's average fingerprint

Arthur Schopenhauer on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookArthur Schopenhauer's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons11.711.47.2
Commas74.182.376.6
Colons2.12.81.6
Exclamation marks0.70.52.8
Question marks1.00.63.7
Words per sentence28.730.217.0
Dialogue3%2%22%

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

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