Life and Letters of Charles Darwin

words removed
195,555
marks left
35,111
words a sentence
19.3
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: Southern Literature From 1579-1895, Louise Manly. More twins

Charles Darwin on the shelf

4 books by Charles Darwin are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 2nd closest of the 4 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Hilaire Belloc. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Charles Darwin's punctuation is closest to Hilaire Belloc's.

Charles Darwin's average fingerprint

Charles Darwin on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookCharles Darwin's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons8.111.57.2
Commas69.579.376.6
Colons2.02.31.6
Exclamation marks1.00.52.8
Question marks1.10.73.7
Words per sentence19.321.517.0
Dialogue17%6%22%

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

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