The Letters of Jane Austen

words removed
79,073
marks left
14,101
words a sentence
14.6
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 Promised Land, Mary Antin. More twins

Jane Austen on the shelf

9 books by Jane Austen are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 9th closest of the 9 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for William James. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, Jane Austen's punctuation is closest to Charles Madison Curry's.

Jane Austen's average fingerprint

Jane Austen on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookJane Austen's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons9.212.77.6
Commas69.973.878.1
Colons1.01.21.8
Exclamation marks1.94.12.0
Question marks1.23.12.8
Words per sentence14.619.317.7
Dialogue1%32%18%

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

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