The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night

words removed
160,719
marks left
34,008
words a sentence
24.9
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 Bakhtyār Nāma, William Ouseley. More twins

Richard Francis Burton on the shelf

2 books by Richard Francis Burton are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Richard Francis Burton's punctuation is closest to John Forster's.

Richard Francis Burton's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookRichard Francis Burton's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons12.511.37.2
Commas72.288.076.6
Colons8.36.81.6
Exclamation marks6.03.12.8
Question marks3.12.13.7
Words per sentence24.919.317.0
Dialogue36%32%22%

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

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