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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noodling impotently about how best to study archive/silicon-jest inspo/characterisation

[...] precious time was lost before he could even think about how to set up a workable schedule for maximally efficient reviewing for the exam, even mentally, which he did every day. His great weakness was strategic organization and apportionment of time, as Reynolds pointed out at every opportunit…

—p.13 The Pale King §2 (7) by David Foster Wallace
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what their professional hopes and dreams were archive/silicon-jest

[...] the woman's claw on the steel armrest between them was a horrible sight that he declined to attend to. Old people's hands frightened and repelled him. He'd had grandparents whose hands he could remember in their laps looking alien and clawlike. Upon incorporation, Jones, Inc. issues common st…

—p.12 §2 (7) by David Foster Wallace
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crossing their arms funereally archive/silicon-jest

[...] The card's figures opening emergency doors and pulling cords and crossing their arms funereally with their seat cushions on their chests seemed amateurishly drawn and their features little more than bumps; you couldn't see fear or relief or really anything on their faces as they slid down the…

—p.8 §2 (7) by David Foster Wallace
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a trusted friend's eyes, or a mirror archive/silicon-jest

[...] If the examiner looks at the documentarian instead of the camera, it can appear evasive or coerced. It's not optimal, and the prebriefer's advice is to look into the camera as one would a trusted friend's eyes, or a mirror, depending.

—p.105 §14 (102) by David Foster Wallace