Bookstagram

English

Alternative forms

• bookstagram

Etymology

A Bookstagram-style photograph.

Blend of book +‎ Instagram.

Proper noun

Bookstagram

1. The community of book and reading-oriented accounts on Instagram, characterized by artful photos of books.
   • 2017 March 30, Lottie Moulster, “The Rising Trend of 'Bookstagram”, in The Galleon, University of Portsmouth, page 13:

     Some of the bigger Bookstagram accounts that I follow are @quoththebooklover who has 15.3k followers, […]

   • 2018 March, Vidhya Thakker, “Bookstagram Community”, in Unread, page 83:

     Blogging was already something I did, but then I indulged in writing book reviews, which was the start of my journey on Bookstagram.

   • 2019 May 1, Karen Schechner, “Q&Q with Mike Gustafson, Co-Owner of Literati Bookstore”, in Kirkus Reviews, page 124:

     Younger readers are passionate about new voices and new ideas but also about real, physical books and real, physical bookstores. They take photos of books. They create bookstagram accounts.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Bookstagram.

Hypernyms

• Bookternet

Coordinate terms

• Booklr (Tumblr)
• BookTok (TikTok)
• BookTube (YouTube)

Derived terms

• Bookstagrammer

Translations

Translations

• Korean: 북스타그램 (bukseutageuraem)

See also

• shelfie