The Adventures of Roderick Random

words removed
192,184
marks left
32,319
words a sentence
36.9
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 Magic Ring, Vol. 1 (of 3), Friedrich Heinrich Karl La Motte-Fouqué. More twins

T. Smollett on the shelf

3 books by T. Smollett 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 takes it for Benjamin Franklin. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, T. Smollett's punctuation is closest to John William Polidori's.

T. Smollett's average fingerprint

T. Smollett on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookT. Smollett's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons11.112.97.2
Commas99.497.676.6
Colons2.51.61.6
Exclamation marks3.32.62.8
Question marks1.61.13.7
Words per sentence36.939.117.0
Dialogue19%20%22%

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

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