shelfie

English

A shelfie showcasing a collection of books arranged by color.

Etymology

From shelf +‎ -ie, by analogy with selfie.

Pronunciation

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Noun

shelfie (plural shelfies)

1. (social media, slang) A photograph of a bookshelf/bookcase taken by its owner and shared on social media.
   • 2013 December 18, Hector Tobar, “Hey everybody, let's 'shelfie!'”, in Los Angeles Times:

     Besides a feline closeup she’s placed on one shelf, and an opera mask on another, her shelfie shows a wonderful collection of books about music, including “The Rough Guide to Opera,” several biographies of Mozart and the history “Women Making Music.”

   • 2014 April 25, Dale Hrabi, “The Rise of the 'Shelfie': Instagram's Next Craze”, in The Wall Street Journal:

     She's certainly observed the rate at which people are posting shelfies on Instagram.

   • 2014 May 31, “Sharing your shelfie”, in Winnipeg Free Press:

     Some practitioners have tried to position the shelfie as "the intellectual's selfie," making it seem like some digital form of 17th-century Dutch still-life painting.

   • 2024 February 9, Edwin Heathcote, “‘Bookshelf wealth’ is the oldest decorating trick in the book”, in Financial Times‎^[1]:

     From social media “shelfies” to Zoom backgrounds, to hyperinflated coffee-table tomes, books are everywhere nowadays, even—perhaps even especially—in the homes of people who never really read.

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

See also

• Bookstagram