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).

26
New
12
Incomplete
14
Unread
37
Publications
792
Complete
5
Ignored

Activity

Filter
Section Author Term Note Book Tag All
You added a vocabulary term
8 years, 2 months ago

hew
David Foster Wallace's Balancing Books: Fictions of Value

the way this state was historically hewn out of the wilderness

—p.42 Come to Work (33) by Jeffrey Severs
strange
You added a vocabulary term
8 years, 2 months ago

preterite

built over centuries a secular infrastruture predicated on damning the preterite

—p.39 Come to Work (33) by Jeffrey Severs
unknown
You added a vocabulary term
8 years, 2 months ago

Rabelaisian

Broom thus offers a bracingly Rabelaisian account of a postmodern capitalism

—p.37 Come to Work (33) by Jeffrey Severs
unknown
You added a vocabulary term
8 years, 2 months ago

primogeniture
Inequality: What Can Be Done?

If families practice primogeniture, passing wealth on each time to a single member of the next generation (typically the oldest son), then the total would be unaffected.

—p.158 Capital Shared (155) by Anthony B. Atkinson
notable
You added a vocabulary term
8 years, 2 months ago

parlous

the "parlous state" of German unions

—p.128 Technological Change and Countervailing Power (115) by Anthony B. Atkinson
uncertain