All in the Day's Work

words removed
145,579
marks left
21,511
words a sentence
18.7
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 Time Machine, H. G. Wells. More twins

Ida M. Tarbell on the shelf

It's the only book by Ida M. Tarbell on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Ida M. Tarbell's punctuation is closest to Helen Keller's.

Helen Keller'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
Semicolons3.37.2
Commas59.276.6
Colons1.21.6
Exclamation marks0.82.8
Question marks2.33.7
Words per sentence18.717.0
Dialogue7%22%

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

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