The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

words removed
67,268
marks left
12,301
words a sentence
28.8
most used mark
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Its punctuation fingerprint: each mark's share, on the same scale as every book on the shelf.

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Benjamin Franklin on the shelf

3 books by Benjamin Franklin are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 2nd closest of the 3 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf names Benjamin Franklin as its author. 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
Semicolons12.715.57.2
Commas97.5102.576.6
Colons0.82.31.6
Exclamation marks0.40.62.8
Question marks0.41.63.7
Words per sentence28.825.817.0
Dialogue11%17%22%

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

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