An Essay on the Principle of Population

words removed
54,561
marks left
6,171
words a sentence
34.3
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: A Treatise on Domestic Economy, Catharine Esther Beecher. More twins

T. R. Malthus on the shelf

It's the only book by T. R. Malthus on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, T. R. Malthus's punctuation is closest to Catharine Esther Beecher's.

Catharine Esther Beecher'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
Semicolons2.97.2
Commas71.876.6
Colons0.61.6
Exclamation marks0.12.8
Question marks0.93.7
Words per sentence34.317.0
Dialogue3%22%

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

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