Harriet Martineau

words removed
72,123
marks left
11,517
words a sentence
23.7
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: Audubon the Naturalist, Francis Hobart Herrick. More twins

Florence Fenwick Miller on the shelf

It's the only book by Florence Fenwick Miller on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Florence Fenwick Miller's punctuation is closest to Francis Hobart Herrick's.

Francis Hobart Herrick'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
Semicolons10.37.2
Commas67.976.6
Colons1.11.6
Exclamation marks1.12.8
Question marks0.73.7
Words per sentence23.717.0
Dialogue11%22%

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

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