Meaning of bookalike | Babel Free

Definitions

Something which closely resembles a book in some way.

informal

Examples

“We can therefore extend the benefit of the doubt to all the Shanghai girls, babies, dolls, etc. out there for their bookalikes, and even for their catty copycatting, though one hopes that, for the sake of the genre, China's banal book title formula of [CITY NAME] + [GENDER-SPECIFIC SOBRIQUET] will soon fall out of fashion.”

“Judgement Day for the bookalikes”

“I carefully selected the related titles to ensure that you could have a similar conversation surrounding the bookalikes as you did with the featured book.”

“But if words and images within the pages give books their value, covers transform them into something more. That something is the reason we like to display books in our homes, why furniture stores make sure their shelves have books (or bookalikes), or why selling books by the foot is a sustainable—in fact, lucrative—proposition.”

“Harry's bookalike”

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