Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers

words removed
198,780
marks left
36,050
words a sentence
22.9
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: The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper. More twins

L. Valentine on the shelf

It's the only book by L. Valentine on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, L. Valentine's punctuation is closest to James Fenimore Cooper's.

James Fenimore Cooper'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
Semicolons8.87.2
Commas86.376.6
Colons3.21.6
Exclamation marks3.22.8
Question marks3.93.7
Words per sentence22.917.0
Dialogue41%22%

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

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