A Treatise on Domestic Economy

words removed
127,661
marks left
27,969
words a sentence
18.3
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: Considerations on Representative Government, John Stuart Mill. More twins

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It's the only book by Catharine Esther Beecher on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Catharine Esther Beecher's punctuation is closest to William Godwin's.

William Godwin'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
Semicolons9.57.2
Commas138.276.6
Colons0.71.6
Exclamation marks0.22.8
Question marks0.63.7
Words per sentence18.317.0
Dialogue5%22%

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

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