shelfie
English edit
Etymology edit
From shelf + -ie, by analogy with selfie.
Noun edit
shelfie (plural shelfies)
- (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.