From the Earth to the Moon

words removed
92,283
marks left
19,674
words a sentence
15.8
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: Off on a Comet! a Journey Through Planetary Space, Jules Verne. More twins

Jules Verne on the shelf

7 books by Jules Verne are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 3rd closest of the 7 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf names Jules Verne as its author. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Jules Verne's punctuation is closest to H. Rider Haggard's.

Jules Verne's average fingerprint

Jules Verne on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookJules Verne's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons9.67.17.2
Commas82.284.076.6
Colons0.91.01.6
Exclamation marks7.15.82.8
Question marks6.25.43.7
Words per sentence15.816.517.0
Dialogue31%24%22%

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

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