The Corbin Necklace

words removed
59,212
marks left
15,214
words a sentence
12.5
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: Anne of the Island, L. M. Montgomery. More twins

Henry Kitchell Webster on the shelf

2 books by Henry Kitchell Webster are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 2nd closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Henry Kitchell Webster's punctuation is closest to Dorothy L. Sayers's.

Henry Kitchell Webster's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookHenry Kitchell Webster's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons1.82.97.2
Commas66.269.876.6
Colons0.20.41.6
Exclamation marks1.62.22.8
Question marks7.35.93.7
Words per sentence12.514.617.0
Dialogue52%41%22%

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

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