The Young Visiters Or, Mr. Salteena's Plan

words removed
15,023
marks left
1,271
words a sentence
18.5
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: Stray Birds, Rabindranath Tagore. More twins

Daisy Ashford on the shelf

It's the only book by Daisy Ashford on the shelf. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Daisy Ashford's punctuation is closest to Edward J. O'Brien's.

Edward J. O'Brien'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
Semicolons0.57.2
Commas6.076.6
Colons0.31.6
Exclamation marks0.02.8
Question marks0.23.7
Words per sentence18.517.0
Dialogue5%22%

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

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