Farthest North, Vol. I

words removed
129,012
marks left
22,655
words a sentence
19.0
most used mark
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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: Farthest North, Vol. II, Fridtjof Nansen. More twins

Fridtjof Nansen on the shelf

2 books by Fridtjof Nansen are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, Fridtjof Nansen's punctuation is closest to Mary Antin's.

Fridtjof Nansen's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookFridtjof Nansen's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons8.88.57.6
Commas66.668.378.1
Colons1.00.81.8
Exclamation marks2.01.62.0
Question marks1.91.52.8
Words per sentence19.020.217.7
Dialogue59%55%18%

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

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