The Confessions of St. Augustine

words removed
112,119
marks left
20,115
words a sentence
30.3
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: Cicero's Tusculan Disputations, Marcus Tullius Cicero. More twins

Saint Augustine on the shelf

It's the only book by Saint Augustine on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Saint Augustine's punctuation is closest to Livy's.

Livy'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
Semicolons16.97.2
Commas111.176.6
Colons3.71.6
Exclamation marks0.92.8
Question marks6.83.7
Words per sentence30.317.0
Dialogue6%22%

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

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