The Mysterious Island

words removed
194,309
marks left
39,439
words a sentence
17.7
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: Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne. More twins

Jules Verne on the shelf

7 books by Jules Verne are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 5th closest of the 7 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf names Jules Verne as its author. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Jules Verne's punctuation is closest to H. Rider Haggard's.

Jules Verne's average fingerprint

Jules Verne on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookJules Verne's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons3.87.17.2
Commas91.384.076.6
Colons0.41.01.6
Exclamation marks7.15.82.8
Question marks4.45.43.7
Words per sentence17.716.517.0
Dialogue22%24%22%

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

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