Indian Fairy Tales

words removed
71,928
marks left
15,798
words a sentence
16.4
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 Rose of Old St. Louis, Mary Dillon. More twins

Joseph Jacobs on the shelf

2 books by Joseph Jacobs are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 2nd closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, Joseph Jacobs's punctuation is closest to Mary Dillon's.

Joseph Jacobs's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookJoseph Jacobs's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons7.68.57.6
Commas83.887.278.1
Colons2.23.71.8
Exclamation marks5.34.62.0
Question marks3.63.72.8
Words per sentence16.416.317.7
Dialogue29%25%18%

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

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