The Blue Fairy Book

words removed
139,186
marks left
24,958
words a sentence
24.8
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: Aesop's Fables, Aesop. More twins

Andrew Lang on the shelf

It's the only book by Andrew Lang on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Andrew Lang's punctuation is closest to Charles Perrault's.

Charles Perrault'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
Semicolons8.37.2
Commas79.876.6
Colons4.41.6
Exclamation marks3.62.8
Question marks3.03.7
Words per sentence24.817.0
Dialogue29%22%

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

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