The Problems of Philosophy

words removed
43,191
marks left
6,134
words a sentence
27.3
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 Poetics of Aristotle, Aristotle. More twins

Bertrand Russell on the shelf

It's the only book by Bertrand Russell on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Bertrand Russell's punctuation is closest to T. Rice Holmes's.

T. Rice Holmes's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookEvery book's median
Semicolons4.97.2
Commas66.576.6
Colons2.61.6
Exclamation marks0.02.8
Question marks1.03.7
Words per sentence27.317.0
Dialogue32%22%

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

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