Main Currents in American Thought

words removed
557,776
marks left
98,833
words a sentence
21.3
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: A Wanderer in Venice, E. V. Lucas. More twins

Vernon Louis Parrington on the shelf

It's the only book by Vernon Louis Parrington on the shelf. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, Vernon Louis Parrington's punctuation is closest to John Dewey's.

John Dewey'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
Semicolons7.97.6
Commas72.578.1
Colons2.41.8
Exclamation marks0.42.0
Question marks0.82.8
Words per sentence21.317.7
Dialogue6%18%

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

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