The Secret of the Ninth Planet

words removed
47,495
marks left
9,067
words a sentence
13.9
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 Air Pirate, Guy Thorne. More twins

Donald A. Wollheim on the shelf

It's the only book by Donald A. Wollheim on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Donald A. Wollheim's punctuation is closest to Guy Thorne's.

Guy Thorne'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
Semicolons0.77.2
Commas58.676.6
Colons0.21.6
Exclamation marks2.62.8
Question marks3.03.7
Words per sentence13.917.0
Dialogue26%22%

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

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