A Victor of Salamis

words removed
124,406
marks left
29,024
words a sentence
12.6
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: Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930, Various. More twins

William Stearns Davis on the shelf

It's the only book by William Stearns Davis on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, William Stearns Davis's punctuation is closest to Louis Tracy's.

Louis Tracy'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
Semicolons3.87.2
Commas71.476.6
Colons1.01.6
Exclamation marks7.22.8
Question marks6.63.7
Words per sentence12.617.0
Dialogue35%22%

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

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