The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

words removed
39,767
marks left
7,748
words a sentence
17.6
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: Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie. More twins

L. Frank Baum on the shelf

It's the only book by L. Frank Baum on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, L. Frank Baum's punctuation is closest to Alexandre Dumas's.

Alexandre Dumas'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
Semicolons4.97.2
Commas68.076.6
Colons1.51.6
Exclamation marks2.42.8
Question marks4.93.7
Words per sentence17.617.0
Dialogue38%22%

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

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