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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Google's book-scanning project

[...] The company's lead lawyer on this described bluntly the roughshod attitude of his colleagues: "Google's leadership doesn't care terribly much about precedent or law." In this case precedent was the centuries-old protections of intellectual property, and the consequences were a potential devas…

—p.54 World Without Mind The Google Theory of History (32) by Franklin Foer
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hagiography

In a hagiographic documentary about him

—p.46 The Google Theory of History (32) by Franklin Foer
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penumbra

The penumbra of the Holocaust hangs over him

—p.45 The Google Theory of History (32) by Franklin Foer
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humanity remains its familiar self archive/dissertation

[...] Each pathbreaking innovation promises to liberate technology from the talons of the monopolists, to create a new network so democratic that it will transform human nature. Somehow, in each instance, humanity remains its familiar self. Instead of profound redistributions of power, the new netw…

—p.28 The Valley is Whole, The World is One (11) by Franklin Foer