Herland

words removed
53,358
marks left
12,963
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: Out of Time's Abyss, Edgar Rice Burroughs. More twins

Charlotte Perkins Gilman on the shelf

2 books by Charlotte Perkins Gilman are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's punctuation is closest to E. Burke Collins's.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookCharlotte Perkins Gilman's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons6.84.67.2
Commas77.872.076.6
Colons0.80.41.6
Exclamation marks4.19.22.8
Question marks5.43.73.7
Words per sentence15.815.717.0
Dialogue25%16%22%

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

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