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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(adjective) showing or pointing out directly / Deictic terms are words whose meaning shifts depending on the point of view of the speaker

(noun) a member of a Muslim religious order noted for devotional exercises (as bodily movements leading to a trance) / (noun) one that whirls or dances with or as if with the abandonment of a dervish

(adjective) true genuine

(adjective) lacking nutritive value / devoid of significance or interest; dull / naive, simplistic, and superficial

a manuscript or piece of writing material on which the original writing has been effaced to make room for later writing but of which traces remain

(adjective) extremely dark, gloomy, or forbidding; refers to the River Styx of the underworld Hades in Greek mythology;

a feeling of melancholy and world-weariness; coined by German author Jean Paul

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