The Bar Act

words removed
4,941
marks left
906
words a sentence
14.7
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: Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1930, Harry Bates. More twins

Bud La Mar on the shelf

It's the only book by Bud La Mar on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Bud La Mar's punctuation is closest to Harry Bates's.

Harry Bates'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
Semicolons0.47.2
Commas54.876.6
Colons0.81.6
Exclamation marks8.72.8
Question marks1.63.7
Words per sentence14.717.0
Dialogue16%22%

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

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