The Elements of Drawing, in Three Letters to Beginners

words removed
74,067
marks left
12,076
words a sentence
29.1
most used mark
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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: "De Bello Gallico" and Other Commentaries, Julius Caesar. More twins

John Ruskin on the shelf

5 books by John Ruskin are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 2nd closest of the 5 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf names John Ruskin as its author. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, John Ruskin's punctuation is closest to Julius Caesar's.

John Ruskin's average fingerprint

John Ruskin on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookJohn Ruskin's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons15.814.47.6
Commas87.786.678.1
Colons3.42.91.8
Exclamation marks0.00.42.0
Question marks0.10.92.8
Words per sentence29.126.917.7
Dialogue1%3%18%

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

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