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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calembour

Eco sees the pun or calembour as the key feature of Joyce's ambiguous and ever changing novels

—p.3 Introduction (1) by Béatrice Pire, Pierre-Louis Patoine
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the platonic ideal of the corporation

[...] I work as a product manager alongside a team of engineers and designers, eat lunch for free, socialize and discuss current events with my co-workers, and leave the premises late in the evenings. The work is immersive and all-consuming; every feature and bug is carefully triaged, every assumpt…

—p.186 The Point Issue 14 The Google Bus (179) missing author
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the emptiness of consumer culture

[...] Others speak of the emptiness of consumer culture. Zoubeir [...] told Thomson, "When you see that the only project of Western democracies today is to offer people purchasing power, that's empty, that doesn't make you want to live."

—p.165 Lesser Evils (155) missing author