Barry Locke, Half-back

words removed
64,815
marks left
18,767
words a sentence
11.7
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: The Haunting Hand, Walter Adolphe Roberts. More twins

Ralph Henry Barbour on the shelf

It's the only book by Ralph Henry Barbour on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Ralph Henry Barbour's punctuation is closest to Walter Adolphe Roberts's.

Walter Adolphe Roberts'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
Semicolons2.37.2
Commas79.576.6
Colons2.31.6
Exclamation marks11.42.8
Question marks7.53.7
Words per sentence11.717.0
Dialogue42%22%

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

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