The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz Del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2)

words removed
185,038
marks left
27,090
words a sentence
28.6
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 Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. More twins

Bernal Díaz del Castillo on the shelf

It's the only book by Bernal Díaz del Castillo on the shelf. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, Bernal Díaz del Castillo's punctuation is closest to John Foxe's.

John Foxe'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
Semicolons7.87.6
Commas86.578.1
Colons2.31.8
Exclamation marks1.12.0
Question marks0.72.8
Words per sentence28.617.7
Dialogue10%18%

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

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