The Magic Casket

words removed
77,603
marks left
17,791
words a sentence
15.3
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 Blue Scarab, R. Austin Freeman. More twins

R. Austin Freeman on the shelf

5 books by R. Austin Freeman are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 5 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf names R. Austin Freeman as its author. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, R. Austin Freeman's punctuation is closest to Ronald Fraser's.

R. Austin Freeman's average fingerprint

R. Austin Freeman on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookR. Austin Freeman's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons5.86.47.2
Commas70.871.276.6
Colons1.71.41.6
Exclamation marks1.81.42.8
Question marks5.76.23.7
Words per sentence15.315.717.0
Dialogue62%55%22%

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

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