R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)

words removed
21,993
marks left
8,680
words a sentence
4.7
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 Best Short Stories of 1920, and the Yearbook of the American Short Story, Edward J. O'Brien. More twins

Karel Čapek on the shelf

It's the only book by Karel Čapek on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Karel Čapek's punctuation is closest to Edward J. O'Brien's.

Edward J. O'Brien'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
Semicolons2.07.2
Commas53.676.6
Colons2.51.6
Exclamation marks5.12.8
Question marks21.93.7
Words per sentence4.717.0
Dialogue4%22%

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

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