The Chessmen of Mars

words removed
89,445
marks left
14,974
words a sentence
18.0
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: Out of Time's Abyss, Edgar Rice Burroughs. More twins

Edgar Rice Burroughs on the shelf

9 books by Edgar Rice Burroughs are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 7th closest of the 9 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for R. Austin Freeman. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Edgar Rice Burroughs's punctuation is closest to H. G. Wells's.

Edgar Rice Burroughs's average fingerprint

Edgar Rice Burroughs on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookEdgar Rice Burroughs's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons4.84.27.2
Commas51.354.976.6
Colons0.40.41.6
Exclamation marks3.52.42.8
Question marks4.72.83.7
Words per sentence18.020.717.0
Dialogue31%19%22%

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

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