Argonauts of the Western Pacific

words removed
213,664
marks left
37,427
words a sentence
23.3
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: What Is Art?, Leo Tolstoy. More twins

Bronislaw Malinowski on the shelf

It's the only book by Bronislaw Malinowski on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Bronislaw Malinowski's punctuation is closest to Wolfram Eberhard's.

Wolfram Eberhard'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
Semicolons5.57.2
Commas84.076.6
Colons1.91.6
Exclamation marks0.82.8
Question marks0.43.7
Words per sentence23.317.0
Dialogue7%22%

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

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