Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

words removed
117,077
marks left
18,518
words a sentence
27.6
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: Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson. More twins

Henry David Thoreau on the shelf

2 books by Henry David Thoreau are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Henry David Thoreau's punctuation is closest to Ralph Waldo Emerson's.

Henry David Thoreau's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookHenry David Thoreau's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons9.310.77.2
Commas82.182.676.6
Colons0.31.01.6
Exclamation marks1.30.72.8
Question marks2.63.53.7
Words per sentence27.627.417.0
Dialogue4%5%22%

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

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