Darkwater

words removed
68,343
marks left
12,679
words a sentence
19.3
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: Selected Works of Voltairine De Cleyre, Voltairine De Cleyre. More twins

W. E. B. Du Bois on the shelf

3 books by W. E. B. Du Bois are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 3 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Walter Scott. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, W. E. B. Du Bois's punctuation is closest to George Washington Williams's.

W. E. B. Du Bois's average fingerprint

W. E. B. Du Bois on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookW. E. B. Du Bois's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons7.610.17.2
Commas73.892.676.6
Colons3.03.81.6
Exclamation marks5.12.12.8
Question marks5.22.93.7
Words per sentence19.317.717.0
Dialogue8%14%22%

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

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