The Servant's Behaviour Book

words removed
19,442
marks left
4,019
words a sentence
19.6
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: Self Help, Samuel Smiles. More twins

Emily A. Patmore on the shelf

It's the only book by Emily A. Patmore on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Emily A. Patmore's punctuation is closest to Samuel Smiles's.

Samuel Smiles'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
Semicolons12.77.2
Commas95.376.6
Colons2.21.6
Exclamation marks0.62.8
Question marks1.73.7
Words per sentence19.617.0
Dialogue7%22%

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

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