Citations:shelfie

English citations of shelfie

Noun: "(slang) a photograph of a bookshelf/bookcase taken by its owner and shared on social media"

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• 2013, "'Shelfie' craze hits the South Coast for Get Reading!", ABC South Coast, 12 September 2013:

  On September 10, ABC South Coast and Great Southern put a call out for locals to send in 'shelfies' - that is, a photo of themselves with their bookcase.

• 2013, Nassos Stylianou, "Shelfie: show us a photo of your bookshelf", The Guardian, 16 December 2013:

  We want your shelfie. What's more telling than a bookshelf? You can share a snap of a single shelf or your entire bookcase - you decide.

• 2013, Hector Tobar, "Hey everybody, let's 'shelfie!'", Los Angeles Times, 18 December 2013:

  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, Sebastian Payne, "The shelfie: the ultimate antidote to the selfie", The Spectator, 22 February 2014:

  Ashamedly I’ve done a shelfie – showing off half of a bookcase at home.

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

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

• 2014, "Sharing your shelfie", Winnipeg Free Press, 31 May 2014:

  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.

• 2014, Collin Gallant, "Library gearing up for centennial year", Medicine Hat News, 17 October 2014:

  Case in point, librarians are currently taking part in a social media campaign that, instead of “selfie” pictures of themselves at work, they are taking “shelfies.”

• 2014, Meg Mason, "Woman writes book after following domestic guru Martha Stewart’s rules for one year", The Daily Telegraph, 19 October 2014:

  Our Instagram feeds are still clogged with other people’s envy-inducing shelfies, […]