Life of St. Francis of Assisi

words removed
158,035
marks left
34,338
words a sentence
14.0
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 Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, Émile Durkheim. More twins

Paul Sabatier on the shelf

It's the only book by Paul Sabatier on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Paul Sabatier's punctuation is closest to Émile Durkheim's.

Émile Durkheim'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
Semicolons13.27.2
Commas83.476.6
Colons3.21.6
Exclamation marks0.72.8
Question marks1.43.7
Words per sentence14.017.0
Dialogue8%22%

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

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