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).

the clandestine copying and distribution of literature banned by the state, especially formerly in the communist countries of eastern Europe

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samizdat



the films of Wang Bing, many of them durational epics, frequently shown abroad in a gallery context and seen in his native China mostly on circulated samizdat-style files

—p.24 Goodbye, Dragon Inn (1) by Nick Pinkerton
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8 months, 1 week ago


The point of writing in the face of the problem was the point of samizdat, readers and writers meeting secretly all across the Soviet Union to share forbidden books

—p.273 On Becoming an American Writer (251) by Alexander Chee
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4 years, 10 months ago


he photocopied and packaged it so many times that he felt like a publisher himself—or a printer, printing samizdat in a free country

—p.41 by Martin Amis
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2 months, 3 weeks ago