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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8 years ago

an information market to fuel the information economy

The thinking is simple: an information economy must be based on buying and selling information. Therefore, we need policies to make it harder to get access to information unless you've paid for it. That means that we have to make it harder for you to share information, even after you've paid for it…

—p.61 It's the Information Economy, Stupid (61) by Cory Doctorow
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novels aren't screeny enough

The problem, then, isn't that screens aren't sharp enough to
read novels off of. The problem is that novels aren't screeny
enough to warrant protracted, regular reading on screens.

—p.56 You DO Like Reading Off a Computer Screen (54) by Cory Doctorow
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8 years ago

the novel is an invention

The novel is an invention, one that was engendered by technological changes in information display, reproduction, and distribution. The cognitive style of the novel is different from the cognitive style of the legend. The cognitive style of the computer is different from the cognitive style of the …

—p.54 You DO Like Reading Off a Computer Screen (54) by Cory Doctorow