The Critique of Pure Reason

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210,794
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29,891
words a sentence
34.3
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 World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3), Arthur Schopenhauer. More twins

Immanuel Kant on the shelf

6 books by Immanuel Kant are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 2nd closest of the 6 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf names Immanuel Kant as its author. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Immanuel Kant's punctuation is closest to the Venerable Bede's.

Immanuel Kant's average fingerprint

Immanuel Kant on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookImmanuel Kant's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons6.97.97.2
Commas83.775.176.6
Colons1.11.91.6
Exclamation marks0.00.12.8
Question marks0.80.93.7
Words per sentence34.332.017.0
Dialogue1%4%22%

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

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