His Brother's Keeper

words removed
6,728
marks left
1,964
words a sentence
10.9
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: Anne of the Island, L. M. Montgomery. More twins

W. C. Tuttle on the shelf

6 books by W. C. Tuttle are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 6th closest of the 6 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for L. M. Montgomery. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, W. C. Tuttle's punctuation is closest to Harper Williams's.

W. C. Tuttle's average fingerprint

W. C. Tuttle on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookW. C. Tuttle's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons6.52.17.2
Commas71.078.676.6
Colons0.11.21.6
Exclamation marks2.84.02.8
Question marks9.511.03.7
Words per sentence10.910.217.0
Dialogue38%48%22%

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

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