The Trial

words removed
84,220
marks left
17,144
words a sentence
16.5
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 Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle. More twins

Franz Kafka on the shelf

2 books by Franz Kafka are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 2nd closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Franz Kafka's punctuation is closest to H. B. Drake's.

Franz Kafka's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookFranz Kafka's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons1.24.57.2
Commas70.764.776.6
Colons0.30.71.6
Exclamation marks1.61.82.8
Question marks5.03.73.7
Words per sentence16.521.517.0
Dialogue39%25%22%

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

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