Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts

words removed
118,194
marks left
23,093
words a sentence
26.8
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: The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886, Various. More twins

Rosalind Northcote on the shelf

It's the only book by Rosalind Northcote on the shelf. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, Rosalind Northcote's punctuation is closest to James Boswell's.

James Boswell'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
Semicolons6.47.6
Commas90.278.1
Colons3.11.8
Exclamation marks0.92.0
Question marks0.52.8
Words per sentence26.817.7
Dialogue39%18%

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

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