The History of the Norman Conquest of England, Its Causes and Its Results, Volume 3 (of 6)

words removed
303,128
marks left
62,738
words a sentence
15.3
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: The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522, Emma Helen Blair. More twins

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It's the only book by Edward A. Freeman on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Edward A. Freeman's punctuation is closest to Edward Tyas Cook's.

Edward Tyas Cook'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
Semicolons8.67.2
Commas66.576.6
Colons4.41.6
Exclamation marks0.02.8
Question marks0.73.7
Words per sentence15.317.0
Dialogue13%22%

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

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