The Doré Bible Gallery, Complete

words removed
35,864
marks left
6,730
words a sentence
22.6
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 Subjection of Women, John Stuart Mill. More twins

Gustave Doré on the shelf

It's the only book by Gustave Doré on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Gustave Doré's punctuation is closest to Aristotle's.

Aristotle'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
Semicolons10.87.2
Commas100.576.6
Colons10.61.6
Exclamation marks0.32.8
Question marks4.13.7
Words per sentence22.617.0
Dialogue1%22%

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

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