The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522

words removed
99,861
marks left
18,578
words a sentence
20.7
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 History of the Norman Conquest of England, Its Causes and Its Results, Volume 3 (of 6), Edward A. Freeman. More twins

Emma Helen Blair on the shelf

2 books by Emma Helen Blair are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Emma Helen Blair's punctuation is closest to Lynn Thorndike's.

Emma Helen Blair's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookEmma Helen Blair's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons4.37.17.2
Commas61.569.076.6
Colons4.12.81.6
Exclamation marks0.00.02.8
Question marks0.20.23.7
Words per sentence20.724.717.0
Dialogue14%8%22%

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

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