The Wonders of the Invisible World

words removed
85,484
marks left
15,806
words a sentence
22.7
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: American Notes, Charles Dickens. More twins

Cotton Mather on the shelf

It's the only book by Cotton Mather on the shelf. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, Cotton Mather's punctuation is closest to Percy Bysshe Shelley's.

Percy Bysshe Shelley'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
Semicolons13.57.6
Commas92.178.1
Colons5.41.8
Exclamation marks2.32.0
Question marks2.62.8
Words per sentence22.717.7
Dialogue22%18%

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

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