The Last of the Mohicans

words removed
149,024
marks left
26,285
words a sentence
24.5
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: Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers, L. Valentine. More twins

James Fenimore Cooper on the shelf

It's the only book by James Fenimore Cooper on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, James Fenimore Cooper's punctuation is closest to L. Valentine's.

L. Valentine'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
Semicolons10.57.2
Commas86.776.6
Colons1.21.6
Exclamation marks4.82.8
Question marks3.03.7
Words per sentence24.517.0
Dialogue32%22%

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

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