Love and Freindship

words removed
33,808
marks left
4,779
words a sentence
23.7
most used mark
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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: Roughing It, Mark Twain. More twins

Jane Austen on the shelf

7 books by Jane Austen are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 7th closest of the 7 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Edgar Allan Poe. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Jane Austen's punctuation is closest to Robert Louis Stevenson'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
Semicolons6.013.27.2
Commas48.674.776.6
Colons0.41.21.6
Exclamation marks5.14.62.8
Question marks3.13.63.7
Words per sentence23.719.917.0
Dialogue26%40%22%

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

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