Treasure Island

words removed
69,131
marks left
16,820
words a sentence
16.1
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: Fifty-Two Stories For Girls, Alfred H. Miles. More twins

Robert Louis Stevenson on the shelf

6 books by Robert Louis Stevenson are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 3rd closest of the 6 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for George Eliot. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Robert Louis Stevenson's punctuation is closest to Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell's.

Robert Louis Stevenson's average fingerprint

Robert Louis Stevenson on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookRobert Louis Stevenson's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons9.614.57.2
Commas93.081.976.6
Colons1.01.91.6
Exclamation marks4.45.12.8
Question marks4.14.43.7
Words per sentence16.118.617.0
Dialogue29%28%22%

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

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