Frankenstein

words removed
75,267
marks left
10,600
words a sentence
22.3
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: Persuasion, Jane Austen. More twins

Mary Shelley on the shelf

It's the only book by Mary Shelley on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Mary Shelley's punctuation is closest to Rutherford Hayes Platt's.

Rutherford Hayes Platt'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
Semicolons12.97.2
Commas65.976.6
Colons0.61.6
Exclamation marks3.22.8
Question marks2.93.7
Words per sentence22.317.0
Dialogue40%22%

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

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