Helen Vardon's Confession

words removed
132,594
marks left
29,299
words a sentence
14.9
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 Magic Casket, R. Austin Freeman. More twins

R. Austin Freeman on the shelf

5 books by R. Austin Freeman are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 4th closest of the 5 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf names R. Austin Freeman as its author. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, R. Austin Freeman's punctuation is closest to Ronald Fraser's.

R. Austin Freeman's average fingerprint

R. Austin Freeman on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookR. Austin Freeman's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons7.56.47.2
Commas67.171.276.6
Colons1.41.41.6
Exclamation marks1.61.42.8
Question marks7.16.23.7
Words per sentence14.915.717.0
Dialogue51%55%22%

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

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