Anne of the Island

words removed
77,701
marks left
19,401
words a sentence
12.3
most used mark
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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: The Corbin Necklace, Henry Kitchell Webster. More twins

L. M. Montgomery on the shelf

4 books by L. M. Montgomery are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 4 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf names L. M. Montgomery as its author. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, L. M. Montgomery's punctuation is closest to Harper Williams's.

L. M. Montgomery's average fingerprint

L. M. Montgomery on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookL. M. Montgomery's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons3.32.97.2
Commas63.054.776.6
Colons0.00.21.6
Exclamation marks2.62.32.8
Question marks6.75.83.7
Words per sentence12.312.017.0
Dialogue58%52%22%

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

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