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).

Activity

You added a vocabulary term
6 years, 10 months ago

ecumenicism

In his philosophy he practiced an ecumenicism that in a lesser mind would strike us as suspicious or even craven.

On Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

—p.39 Metaphysics in the Royal Society 1715-2010 (38) by Neal Stephenson
notable
You added a vocabulary term
6 years, 10 months ago

ex cathedra

He published rarely but ex cathedra

on Isaac Newton; nice metaphorical use of this word here

—p.39 Metaphysics in the Royal Society 1715-2010 (38) by Neal Stephenson
notable
You added a vocabulary term
6 years, 10 months ago

keister

ten hours a week commuting on her keister

—p.9 Arsebestos (4) by Neal Stephenson
notable
You added a vocabulary term
6 years, 10 months ago

jejune

material that might strike the sophisticated reader as dated or jejune

—p.2 Introduction (1) by Neal Stephenson
confirm
You added a vocabulary term
6 years, 10 months ago

perforce

the nation responsible for the Second World War and the Holocaust must perforce suffer enormous guilt

—p.184 Three Bad Reasons and Two Good Ones to Fear the Germans (173) by Peter Schneider
strange