Common Sense

words removed
22,088
marks left
3,390
words a sentence
29.5
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: On Liberty, John Stuart Mill. More twins

Thomas Paine on the shelf

It's the only book by Thomas Paine on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Thomas Paine's punctuation is closest to John Stuart Mill's.

John Stuart Mill'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
Semicolons12.27.2
Commas89.976.6
Colons1.91.6
Exclamation marks0.52.8
Question marks1.93.7
Words per sentence29.517.0
Dialogue3%22%

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

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