Mr. Standfast

words removed
129,656
marks left
23,589
words a sentence
15.2
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 Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan. More twins

John Buchan on the shelf

2 books by John Buchan are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 2nd closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, John Buchan's punctuation is closest to O. Henry's.

John Buchan's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookJohn Buchan's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons0.91.27.2
Commas53.855.076.6
Colons0.20.21.6
Exclamation marks0.91.02.8
Question marks2.72.63.7
Words per sentence15.215.417.0
Dialogue30%27%22%

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

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