The Air Pirate

words removed
66,073
marks left
14,021
words a sentence
13.5
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 Secret of the Ninth Planet, Donald A. Wollheim. More twins

Guy Thorne on the shelf

It's the only book by Guy Thorne on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Guy Thorne's punctuation is closest to H. G. Wells's.

H. G. Wells'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
Semicolons1.57.2
Commas66.976.6
Colons0.71.6
Exclamation marks4.82.8
Question marks3.33.7
Words per sentence13.517.0
Dialogue35%22%

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

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