My Life, Volume 1

words removed
220,922
marks left
26,301
words a sentence
31.8
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: An Essay on the Principle of Population, T. R. Malthus. More twins

Richard Wagner on the shelf

It's the only book by Richard Wagner on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Richard Wagner's punctuation is closest to T. R. Malthus's.

T. R. Malthus'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
Semicolons3.47.2
Commas67.376.6
Colons0.81.6
Exclamation marks0.42.8
Question marks0.23.7
Words per sentence31.817.0
Dialogue6%22%

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

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