Set in Silver

words removed
123,221
marks left
26,464
words a sentence
19.3
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: Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray. More twins

C. N. Williamson on the shelf

3 books by C. N. Williamson are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 2nd closest of the 3 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Charles Dickens. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, C. N. Williamson's punctuation is closest to H. De Vere Stacpoole's.

C. N. Williamson's average fingerprint

C. N. Williamson on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookC. N. Williamson's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons8.99.07.2
Commas81.274.476.6
Colons1.00.81.6
Exclamation marks3.23.02.8
Question marks3.83.83.7
Words per sentence19.318.417.0
Dialogue8%22%22%

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

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