Audubon the Naturalist

words removed
151,420
marks left
43,962
words a sentence
14.5
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: Harriet Martineau, Florence Fenwick Miller. More twins

Francis Hobart Herrick on the shelf

It's the only book by Francis Hobart Herrick on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Francis Hobart Herrick's punctuation is closest to Florence Fenwick Miller's.

Florence Fenwick Miller'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
Semicolons17.57.2
Commas124.376.6
Colons4.11.6
Exclamation marks0.82.8
Question marks0.83.7
Words per sentence14.517.0
Dialogue9%22%

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

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