An Historical Account of All the Voyages Round the World, Performed by English Navigators, Vol. 2 of 4

words removed
114,885
marks left
18,878
words a sentence
33.2
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: An Historical Account of All the Voyages Round the World, Performed by English Navigators, Vol. 3 of 4, David Henry. More twins

David Henry on the shelf

3 books by David Henry are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 3rd closest of the 3 to their average. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, David Henry's punctuation is closest to Thucydides's.

David Henry's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookDavid Henry's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons13.513.17.2
Commas106.196.876.6
Colons1.52.31.6
Exclamation marks0.10.22.8
Question marks0.10.13.7
Words per sentence33.230.817.0
Dialogue1%1%22%

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

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