Welcome to Bookmarker!

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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climbing an endless ladder of upgrades and solutions

I’VE SINCE HAD TO DISTANCE MYSELF from prolonged meditation on these topics. People who once believed, I’ve been told, are prone to recidivism. Over the past decade, as transhumanism has become the premise of Hollywood blockbusters and a passable topic of small talk among people under 40, I’ve had …

—p.86 n+1 Issue 28: Half-Life Ghost in the Cloud (75) by Meghan O'Gieblyn
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bucolic

If the children are to return, it will not be to rebuild the state's moribund cities but to retreat into its bucolic peripheries.

—p.174 Pure Michigan (170) by Meghan O'Gieblyn
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telos

an old lumber town whose economic telos ended the day Chicago discovered steel

—p.171 Pure Michigan (170) by Meghan O'Gieblyn
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vade mecum

The parable, which is today the vade mecum of the Christian financial planning industry

—p.135 The End (128) by Meghan O'Gieblyn
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