Dracula

words removed
162,525
marks left
32,281
words a sentence
17.4
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: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Mark Twain. More twins

Bram Stoker on the shelf

It's the only book by Bram Stoker on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Bram Stoker's punctuation is closest to Henry Harland's.

Henry Harland'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
Semicolons10.47.2
Commas69.276.6
Colons3.91.6
Exclamation marks4.62.8
Question marks3.03.7
Words per sentence17.417.0
Dialogue37%22%

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

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