A Cat Book

words removed
924
marks left
181
words a sentence
20.1
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: Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts, Rosalind Northcote. More twins

E. V. Lucas on the shelf

2 books by E. V. Lucas are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 1187 other authors on the shelf, E. V. Lucas's punctuation is closest to Leo Wiener's.

E. V. Lucas's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookE. V. Lucas's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons5.47.07.6
Commas77.982.278.1
Colons4.33.51.8
Exclamation marks1.10.82.0
Question marks0.00.42.8
Words per sentence20.118.817.7
Dialogue4%7%18%

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

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