Vanity Fair

words removed
306,982
marks left
62,692
words a sentence
20.2
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: Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 456, No. 10, October 1853, Various. More twins

William Makepeace Thackeray on the shelf

It's the only book by William Makepeace Thackeray on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, William Makepeace Thackeray's punctuation is closest to Walter Scott's.

Walter Scott'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
Semicolons8.37.2
Commas79.976.6
Colons2.01.6
Exclamation marks2.82.8
Question marks4.03.7
Words per sentence20.217.0
Dialogue19%22%

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

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