Red Nails

words removed
31,509
marks left
6,165
words a sentence
14.1
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: Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930, Various. More twins

Robert E. Howard on the shelf

5 books by Robert E. Howard are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 5th closest of the 5 to their average. Held out and guessed from its marks alone, the shelf takes it for Louis Tracy. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Robert E. Howard's punctuation is closest to Gilbert Collins's.

Robert E. Howard's average fingerprint

Robert E. Howard on the numbers page

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookRobert E. Howard's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons1.92.97.2
Commas56.261.776.6
Colons0.60.71.6
Exclamation marks7.36.92.8
Question marks4.74.53.7
Words per sentence14.114.417.0
Dialogue29%28%22%

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

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