Meaning of shelfie | Babel Free

Definitions

A photograph of a bookshelf/bookcase taken by its owner and shared on social media.

slang

Examples

“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.””

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

“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.”

“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.”

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