The Letters of William James, Vol. 1

words removed
111,713
marks left
22,123
words a sentence
17.2
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: How to Live on 24 Hours a Day, Arnold Bennett. More twins

William James on the shelf

8 books by William James are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 7th closest of the 8 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for H. G. Wells. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, William James's punctuation is closest to Fridtjof Nansen's.

William James's average fingerprint

William James on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookWilliam James's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons4.66.87.6
Commas67.571.878.1
Colons1.01.81.8
Exclamation marks3.41.12.0
Question marks1.51.92.8
Words per sentence17.221.217.7
Dialogue10%19%18%

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

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