Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation'

words removed
178,080
marks left
44,700
words a sentence
20.9
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: Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics, Immanuel Kant. More twins

William Bradford on the shelf

It's the only book by William Bradford on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, William Bradford's punctuation is closest to Émile Durkheim's.

Émile Durkheim'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
Semicolons12.17.2
Commas97.876.6
Colons2.91.6
Exclamation marks0.12.8
Question marks0.43.7
Words per sentence20.917.0
Dialogue1%22%

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

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