The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I.

words removed
270,179
marks left
58,084
words a sentence
27.8
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: Biographia Literaria, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. More twins

Edward William Lane on the shelf

It's the only book by Edward William Lane on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Edward William Lane's punctuation is closest to Samuel Taylor Coleridge's.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge'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
Semicolons17.07.2
Commas98.376.6
Colons6.61.6
Exclamation marks2.92.8
Question marks2.63.7
Words per sentence27.817.0
Dialogue7%22%

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

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