Gulliver's Travels

words removed
105,432
marks left
16,427
words a sentence
36.2
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: The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli. More twins

Jonathan Swift on the shelf

3 books by Jonathan Swift are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 3 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for John Stuart Mill. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Jonathan Swift's punctuation is closest to Flavius Josephus's.

Jonathan Swift's average fingerprint

Jonathan Swift on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookJonathan Swift's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons14.811.27.2
Commas94.696.876.6
Colons2.93.51.6
Exclamation marks0.10.22.8
Question marks0.50.53.7
Words per sentence36.238.417.0
Dialogue23%8%22%

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

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