A Journey to the Centre of the Earth

words removed
86,508
marks left
17,103
words a sentence
15.9
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: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne. More twins

Jules Verne on the shelf

7 books by Jules Verne are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 6th closest of the 7 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Edgar Rice Burroughs. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Jules Verne's punctuation is closest to H. Rider Haggard's.

Jules Verne's average fingerprint

Jules Verne on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookJules Verne's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons4.87.17.2
Commas77.384.076.6
Colons0.51.01.6
Exclamation marks4.25.82.8
Question marks5.15.43.7
Words per sentence15.916.517.0
Dialogue22%24%22%

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

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