Ancient Britain and the Invasions of Julius Caesar

words removed
377,139
marks left
124,668
words a sentence
11.2
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 Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy, Jacob Burckhardt. More twins

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It's the only book by T. Rice Holmes on the shelf. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, T. Rice Holmes's punctuation is closest to Jacob Burckhardt's.

Jacob Burckhardt'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
Semicolons13.97.6
Commas116.978.1
Colons2.81.8
Exclamation marks0.22.0
Question marks1.22.8
Words per sentence11.217.7
Dialogue37%18%

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

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