The Heather-Moon

words removed
125,526
marks left
27,599
words a sentence
16.1
most used mark
,

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 Real Adventure, Henry Kitchell Webster. More twins

C. N. Williamson on the shelf

3 books by C. N. Williamson are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 3 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Joseph Conrad. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, C. N. Williamson's punctuation is closest to H. De Vere Stacpoole's.

C. N. Williamson's average fingerprint

C. N. Williamson on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookC. N. Williamson's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons6.19.07.2
Commas68.174.476.6
Colons1.40.81.6
Exclamation marks3.73.02.8
Question marks4.23.83.7
Words per sentence16.118.417.0
Dialogue29%22%22%

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

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