Leviathan

words removed
214,409
marks left
41,679
words a sentence
32.3
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 Advancement of Learning, Francis Bacon. More twins

Thomas Hobbes on the shelf

It's the only book by Thomas Hobbes on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Thomas Hobbes's punctuation is closest to Francis Bacon's.

Francis Bacon'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
Semicolons23.37.2
Commas110.476.6
Colons6.11.6
Exclamation marks0.02.8
Question marks0.83.7
Words per sentence32.317.0
Dialogue6%22%

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

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