Utopia

words removed
43,633
marks left
5,795
words a sentence
54.8
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: Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift. More twins

Thomas More on the shelf

It's the only book by Thomas More on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Thomas More's punctuation is closest to Daniel Defoe's.

Daniel Defoe'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
Semicolons14.67.2
Commas82.776.6
Colons2.41.6
Exclamation marks0.32.8
Question marks1.13.7
Words per sentence54.817.0
Dialogue88%22%

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

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