The Daughter of Anderson Crow

words removed
79,462
marks left
21,152
words a sentence
12.2
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 Loot of the Lazy A, W. C. Tuttle. More twins

George Barr McCutcheon on the shelf

It's the only book by George Barr McCutcheon on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, George Barr McCutcheon's punctuation is closest to Harper Williams's.

Harper Williams'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
Semicolons3.17.2
Commas62.976.6
Colons0.51.6
Exclamation marks6.72.8
Question marks8.23.7
Words per sentence12.217.0
Dialogue45%22%

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

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