I, Mars

words removed
3,064
marks left
1,194
words a sentence
6.3
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 Girl on the Boat, P. G. Wodehouse. More twins

Ray Bradbury on the shelf

It's the only book by Ray Bradbury on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Ray Bradbury's punctuation is closest to P. G. Wodehouse's.

P. G. Wodehouse'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
Semicolons0.07.2
Commas96.676.6
Colons1.31.6
Exclamation marks24.22.8
Question marks22.53.7
Words per sentence6.317.0
Dialogue44%22%

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

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