Just Around the Corner

words removed
89,120
marks left
31,657
words a sentence
11.8
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: A Martian Odyssey, Stanley G. Weinbaum. More twins

Fannie Hurst on the shelf

It's the only book by Fannie Hurst on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Fannie Hurst's punctuation is closest to Stanley G. Weinbaum's.

Stanley G. Weinbaum'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
Semicolons8.87.2
Commas68.176.6
Colons0.41.6
Exclamation marks16.72.8
Question marks9.43.7
Words per sentence11.817.0
Dialogue64%22%

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

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