An Account of Egypt

words removed
37,767
marks left
4,064
words a sentence
60.4
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 Seven Lamps of Architecture, John Ruskin. More twins

Herodotus on the shelf

2 books by Herodotus are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 2nd closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, Herodotus's punctuation is closest to Suetonius's.

Herodotus's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookHerodotus's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons11.010.67.6
Commas59.660.278.1
Colons7.38.51.8
Exclamation marks0.00.02.0
Question marks0.20.32.8
Words per sentence60.446.217.7
Dialogue2%7%18%

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

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