bookalike

plural bookalikes · alternative book-alike

1. informalSomething which closely resembles a book in some way.

   Harry's bookalike

   2023 March 2, Andy Robinson, “Boy, 3, stuns schoolmates by dressing as Prince Harry for World Book Day”, in The US Sun, London: News Group Newspapers Limited, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Mar 2023

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   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.

   2013 May 1, Tom Carter, “Shanghai Girls Gone Copy-Catty”, in HuffPost, archived from the original on 25 Sep 2023

   Judgement Day for the bookalikes

   2014 May 11, Francesca Angelini, “Judgement Day for the bookalikes”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 31 Oct 2021

   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.

   2019, Maria Walther, The Ramped-Up Read Aloud: What to Notice as You Turn the Page, Thousand Oaks, C.A.: Corwin, →ISBN, page 3

   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.

   2020 November 25, Annalisa Merelli, “Book covers”, in Quartz, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2023