The Seventh Shot

words removed
68,621
marks left
17,861
words a sentence
12.8
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 Mystery of the Yellow Room, Gaston Leroux. More twins

Herman Landon on the shelf

2 books by Herman Landon are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 1st closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Herman Landon's punctuation is closest to E. M. Forster's.

Herman Landon's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookHerman Landon's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons5.33.17.2
Commas74.463.676.6
Colons2.01.11.6
Exclamation marks10.25.92.8
Question marks10.28.53.7
Words per sentence12.812.717.0
Dialogue47%43%22%

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

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