Superstition and Force

words removed
232,273
marks left
55,590
words a sentence
13.0
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: A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, Vol. 1 (of 2), Georges Perrot. More twins

Henry Charles Lea on the shelf

3 books by Henry Charles Lea are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 3 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf names Henry Charles Lea as its author. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, Henry Charles Lea's punctuation is closest to Fannie Merritt Farmer's.

Henry Charles Lea's average fingerprint

Henry Charles Lea on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookHenry Charles Lea's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons3.94.67.6
Commas97.097.778.1
Colons0.50.71.8
Exclamation marks0.20.12.0
Question marks0.10.12.8
Words per sentence13.013.617.7
Dialogue4%3%18%

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

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