Lady Susan

words removed
23,192
marks left
3,534
words a sentence
20.1
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: Frankenstein, Mary Shelley. More twins

Jane Austen on the shelf

9 books by Jane Austen are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 7th closest of the 9 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Ralph Waldo Emerson. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, Jane Austen's punctuation is closest to Charles Madison Curry's.

Jane Austen's average fingerprint

Jane Austen on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookJane Austen's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons13.212.77.6
Commas70.973.878.1
Colons1.41.21.8
Exclamation marks3.34.12.0
Question marks2.03.12.8
Words per sentence20.119.317.7
Dialogue12%32%18%

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

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