The Golden Bough

words removed
413,685
marks left
51,117
words a sentence
29.1
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: Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Charles Mackay. More twins

James George Frazer on the shelf

It's the only book by James George Frazer on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, James George Frazer's punctuation is closest to Charles Mackay's.

Charles Mackay'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
Semicolons5.97.2
Commas61.376.6
Colons0.71.6
Exclamation marks0.52.8
Question marks0.43.7
Words per sentence29.117.0
Dialogue11%22%

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

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