The Trouble at Pinelands

words removed
75,210
marks left
23,842
words a sentence
11.1
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 Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain. More twins

Ernest M. Poate on the shelf

It's the only book by Ernest M. Poate on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Ernest M. Poate's punctuation is closest to Charles Alden Seltzer's.

Charles Alden Seltzer'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
Semicolons10.97.2
Commas89.876.6
Colons0.91.6
Exclamation marks16.02.8
Question marks8.23.7
Words per sentence11.117.0
Dialogue47%22%

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

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