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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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the girls watched with intent, quiet eyes

down between open knees. Guys would talk loudly to one another about whatever they were thinking about or things that they did. I remember a guy talking about a girl he’d gotten pregnant. He’d told her to get on the ground and eat dirt first, and she did. “And then I fertilized it!” he said. The gu…

—p.32 Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
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they also had a feeling of sickness hidden in them

I lived from apartment to apartment, sometimes with friends, sometimes strangers. I got a ride to San Francisco and stayed in a European-style hostel, where you could stay a limited number of nights for a fixed fee. It was a large dilapidated building with high ceilings and sweet, moldy drains. The…

—p.19 by Mary Gaitskill
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risible

worker misclassification—the risible fiction that “gig economy” workers, whose every movement is scripted in fine detail by their employers, are actually “independent contractors”

—p.248 CHAPTER 19 Uniting Against Chokepoint Capitalism (245) by Cory Doctorow, Rebecca Giblin
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proposal for an American Music Library

There’s potential for grander-scale initiatives too—like entertainment lawyer Henderson Cole’s radical proposal for an American Music Library. He envisages this as a government-financed digital public music library, which, like a public library for books, could be accessed by any American for free.…

—p.243 CHAPTER 18 Collective Ownership (229) by Cory Doctorow, Rebecca Giblin