The Silent Baltic

words removed
9,432
marks left
1,151
words a sentence
21.9
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 Time Machine, H. G. Wells. More twins

Marcus Knox on the shelf

It's the only book by Marcus Knox on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Marcus Knox's punctuation is closest to Helen Keller's.

Helen Keller'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
Semicolons2.77.2
Commas51.076.6
Colons1.21.6
Exclamation marks3.32.8
Question marks2.23.7
Words per sentence21.917.0
Dialogue4%22%

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

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