On Liberty

words removed
52,310
marks left
7,054
words a sentence
35.1
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: Common Sense, Thomas Paine. More twins

John Stuart Mill on the shelf

5 books by John Stuart Mill are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 5 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf names John Stuart Mill as its author. 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
Semicolons9.49.47.2
Commas79.676.776.6
Colons2.62.31.6
Exclamation marks0.10.02.8
Question marks1.21.23.7
Words per sentence35.136.017.0
Dialogue2%3%22%

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

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