Persuasion

words removed
83,707
marks left
14,935
words a sentence
22.5
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: Mansfield Park, Jane Austen. More twins

Jane Austen on the shelf

7 books by Jane Austen are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 5th closest of the 7 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf names Jane Austen as its author. 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
Semicolons15.813.27.2
Commas83.974.776.6
Colons1.61.21.6
Exclamation marks3.84.62.8
Question marks2.63.63.7
Words per sentence22.519.917.0
Dialogue35%40%22%

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

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