The Time Machine

words removed
32,763
marks left
5,428
words a sentence
16.7
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: All in the Day's Work, Ida M. Tarbell. More twins

H. G. Wells on the shelf

6 books by H. G. Wells are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 5th closest of the 6 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Jack London. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, H. G. Wells's punctuation is closest to Guy Thorne's.

H. G. Wells's average fingerprint

H. G. Wells on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookH. G. Wells's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons3.34.17.2
Commas68.766.176.6
Colons1.20.51.6
Exclamation marks2.04.72.8
Question marks2.94.03.7
Words per sentence16.715.117.0
Dialogue87%36%22%

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

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