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).

(adjective) lacking facility in reading and writing and ignorant of the knowledge to be gained from books / (adjective) illiterate / (adjective) not marked with letters

Highlighted phrases

unlettered



In the mouths of unlettered people she finds the bliss of quotidian metaphor:

I don't think I've seen this word used before but the meaning is pretty clear

—p.5 Their Eyes Were Watching God: What Does Soulful Mean? (3) by Zadie Smith
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6 years, 10 months ago

In 1937, black readers were embarrassed by the unlettered nature of the dialogue

—p.10 Their Eyes Were Watching God: What Does Soulful Mean? (3) by Zadie Smith
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6 years, 10 months ago


Naipaul claimed that he had not even been published in America until the 1970s, 'and then the reviews were awful--unlettered, illiterate, ignorant'.

—p.115 Wounder and Wounded (115) by James Wood
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6 years, 7 months ago