The Part Borne by the Dutch in the Discovery of Australia 1606-1765

words removed
65,293
marks left
15,681
words a sentence
15.4
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: England Under the Angevin Kings, Volumes I and II, Kate Norgate. More twins

J. E. Heeres on the shelf

It's the only book by J. E. Heeres on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, J. E. Heeres's punctuation is closest to Kate Norgate's.

Kate Norgate'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
Semicolons11.37.2
Commas73.976.6
Colons1.31.6
Exclamation marks0.12.8
Question marks0.43.7
Words per sentence15.417.0
Dialogue2%22%

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

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