The Promised Land

words removed
116,012
marks left
19,560
words a sentence
19.4
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: Farthest North, Vol. II, Fridtjof Nansen. More twins

Mary Antin on the shelf

It's the only book by Mary Antin on the shelf. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, Mary Antin's punctuation is closest to Fridtjof Nansen's.

Fridtjof Nansen'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
Semicolons8.17.6
Commas70.878.1
Colons0.81.8
Exclamation marks1.72.0
Question marks2.42.8
Words per sentence19.417.7
Dialogue2%18%

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

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