The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States

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words a sentence
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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: Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, First Part, Ernst Haeckel. More twins

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It's the only book by Asa Gray on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Asa Gray's punctuation is closest to Ernst Haeckel's.

Ernst Haeckel'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
Semicolons45.37.2
Commas138.576.6
Colons2.01.6
Exclamation marks0.12.8
Question marks0.23.7
Words per sentence6.617.0
Dialogue0%22%

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

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