The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

words removed
16,899
marks left
2,775
words a sentence
12.4
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 Best Short Stories of 1920, and the Yearbook of the American Short Story, Edward J. O'Brien. More twins

Robert Green Ingersoll on the shelf

It's the only book by Robert Green Ingersoll on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Robert Green Ingersoll's punctuation is closest to Edward J. O'Brien's.

Edward J. O'Brien'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
Semicolons0.87.2
Commas25.376.6
Colons1.61.6
Exclamation marks0.12.8
Question marks8.03.7
Words per sentence12.417.0
Dialogue3%22%

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

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