Fifty Years In The Northwest

words removed
298,469
marks left
67,562
words a sentence
10.7
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: A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages, Henry Charles Lea. More twins

William H. C. Folsom on the shelf

It's the only book by William H. C. Folsom on the shelf. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, William H. C. Folsom's punctuation is closest to Henry Charles Lea's.

Henry Charles Lea'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
Semicolons6.27.6
Commas97.878.1
Colons1.71.8
Exclamation marks0.02.0
Question marks0.12.8
Words per sentence10.717.7
Dialogue4%18%

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

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