The War of the Worlds

words removed
60,638
marks left
9,776
words a sentence
17.5
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

H. G. Wells on the shelf

6 books by H. G. Wells are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 4th 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
Semicolons4.04.17.2
Commas68.366.176.6
Colons0.40.51.6
Exclamation marks3.34.72.8
Question marks2.04.03.7
Words per sentence17.515.117.0
Dialogue9%36%22%

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

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