Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, Etc.

words removed
111,015
marks left
29,069
words a sentence
12.8
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: The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 1, R. V. Russell. More twins

George Francis Atkinson on the shelf

It's the only book by George Francis Atkinson on the shelf. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, George Francis Atkinson's punctuation is closest to James Slough Zerbe's.

James Slough Zerbe'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
Semicolons2.97.6
Commas89.878.1
Colons0.61.8
Exclamation marks0.02.0
Question marks0.02.8
Words per sentence12.817.7
Dialogue1%18%

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

Read your own or go back to the shelf

Share it on Hacker News, Reddit, Bluesky, Threads, LinkedIn, X, or .