Great Rivers of the World

words removed
100,976
marks left
15,444
words a sentence
27.1
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 Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness, Florence Hartley. More twins

Esther Singleton on the shelf

It's the only book by Esther Singleton on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Esther Singleton's punctuation is closest to Florence Hartley's.

Florence Hartley'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
Semicolons7.57.2
Commas78.476.6
Colons0.91.6
Exclamation marks0.52.8
Question marks0.33.7
Words per sentence27.117.0
Dialogue7%22%

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

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