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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