Pride and Prejudice

words removed
127,265
marks left
24,998
words a sentence
17.4
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: Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen. More twins

Jane Austen on the shelf

7 books by Jane Austen are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 3rd 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
Semicolons13.413.27.2
Commas77.374.776.6
Colons1.61.21.6
Exclamation marks3.34.62.8
Question marks3.83.63.7
Words per sentence17.419.917.0
Dialogue45%40%22%

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

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