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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the first Library of Alexandria

[...] In any event, this library was burned out by the Romans when they were adding Egypt to their empire. Or maybe it wasn't. It's inherently difficult to get reliable information about an event that consisted of the destruction of all recorded information.

—p.186 Some Remarks: Essays and Other Writing Mother Earth, Mother Board (120) by Neal Stephenson
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close to being a pure meritocracy

[...] The business is as close to being a pure meritocracy as anything ever gets in the real world, and it's only because these guys know they are good that they have the confidence to call themselves cable trash.

—p.153 Mother Earth, Mother Board (120) by Neal Stephenson
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sampan

a sampan is a small utility craft with an enclosed cabin

—p.150 Mother Earth, Mother Board (120) by Neal Stephenson
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scad

He buys scads of high-bandwidth technology from the West

—p.111 In the Kingdom of Mao Bell (selected excerpts) (103) by Neal Stephenson
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