Franklin's Way to Wealth

words removed
3,533
marks left
917
words a sentence
23.1
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: The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, Charles Perrault. More twins

Benjamin Franklin on the shelf

3 books by Benjamin Franklin are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 3rd closest of the 3 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Robert Louis Stevenson. 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
Semicolons22.415.57.2
Commas113.8102.576.6
Colons5.12.31.6
Exclamation marks1.10.62.8
Question marks4.01.63.7
Words per sentence23.125.817.0
Dialogue33%17%22%

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

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