My Bondage and My Freedom

words removed
136,427
marks left
24,504
words a sentence
22.6
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 Golden Bough, James George Frazer. More twins

Frederick Douglass on the shelf

2 books by Frederick Douglass are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Frederick Douglass's punctuation is closest to Charles Mackay's.

Frederick Douglass's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookFrederick Douglass's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons10.910.17.2
Commas93.088.276.6
Colons0.40.51.6
Exclamation marks1.52.42.8
Question marks1.31.13.7
Words per sentence22.620.617.0
Dialogue5%6%22%

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

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