Dubliners

words removed
68,026
marks left
13,776
words a sentence
14.2
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 New Terror, Gaston Leroux. More twins

James Joyce on the shelf

3 books by James Joyce are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 3 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Gaston Leroux. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, James Joyce's punctuation is closest to Euripides's.

James Joyce's average fingerprint

James Joyce on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookJames Joyce's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons2.61.67.2
Commas51.154.376.6
Colons5.37.11.6
Exclamation marks4.45.12.8
Question marks5.86.93.7
Words per sentence14.213.417.0
Dialogue21%8%22%

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

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