bookstagrammer

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UK/ˈbʊk.stəˌɡɹæmə/US/ˈbʊk.stəˌɡɹæmɚ/

noun

An Instagrammer whose account focuses on books and reading.

Scrabble 25

Meanings

bookstagrammer1

nounbookstagrammer (plural bookstagrammers)

plural bookstagrammers

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Bookstagrammer.
    1 more example

    In 2017, a Guardian article about Instagram’s influence on book design provoked a slew of comments about the shallowness of readers, like the bookstagrammers quoted in the piece, who would dare judge a book by the Instagram-friendliness of its cover. Another bookstagrammer responded to the comments on her blog in a post titled ‘Bookstagram, We Have Been Unfairly Attacked And Here’s My Reply To Each And Every One Of The Comments (Reaction Post To The Guardian’s Article On Book Covers & Social Media)‘.

    2019 September 27, Shelby Pope, “Why Instagram's biggest book accounts aren't your usual influencers”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 10 Dec 2020

Bookstagrammer2

nounBookstagrammer (plural Bookstagrammers)

plural Bookstagrammers · alternative bookstagrammer

  1. An Instagrammer whose account focuses on books and reading.

    I was pleasantly surprised how immediately warm and welcoming all the other bookstagrammers were of my account.

    2020, Sam Miller, quoted in Linnea Wingerup, "Cheers To Being Queer (On The Internet!)", Peacock Magazine (American University of Paris), Spring 2020, page 37
    2 more examples

    It's a learning curve – each day you discover something new and it's through collaborating with other Bookstagrammers this is made possible.

    2018 March, Vidhya Thakker, “Bookstagram Community”, in Unread, page 84

    We get a lot of people coming in to take pictures for Instagram, so we pay attention to Instagram poets and bookstagrammers to know what our audience might want.

    2019, Katie Orphan, quoted in Karen Schechner, "A Conversation with Katie Orphan, manager of The Last Bookstore in Los Angeles", Kirkus Reviews, 1 August 2019, page 165

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂ǵosder.?
  2. Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂g-der.?
  3. Proto-Germanic*bōks
  4. Proto-West Germanic*bōk
  5. Old Englishbōc
  6. Middle Englishbok
  7. Englishbook
  8. Proto-Indo-European*énu
  9. Latinin-
  10. Proto-Indo-European*steh₂-
  11. Proto-Indo-European*sth₂éh₁yeti
  12. Proto-Italic*staējō
  13. Proto-Italic*staēō
  14. Latinstō
  15. Latinīnstō
  16. Latinīnstāns
  17. Old Frenchinstant
  18. Middle Englishinstant
  19. Latinīnstān
  20. Frenchinstant
  21. Englishinstant
  22. Proto-Indo-European*kh₂em-
  23. Proto-Indo-Iranian*kmárati
  24. Proto-Iranian*kamarā
  25. Ancient Greekκαμάρα (kamára)
  26. Latincamera
  27. Englishcamera
  28. Englishinstant cameraellip.
  29. Englishinstant
  30. Proto-Indo-European*kʷelh₁-
  31. Ancient Greekτῆλε (têle)
  32. Englishtele-
  33. Proto-Indo-European*gerbʰ-
  34. Proto-Hellenic*grə́pʰō
  35. Ancient Greekγρᾰ́φω (grắphō)
  36. Ancient Greekγράμμα (grámma)
  37. Englishtelegram
  38. EnglishInstagram
  39. EnglishBookstagram
  40. EnglishBookstagrammer

From Bookstagram + -er.

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Translations

Korean 북스타그래머
  • 북스타그래머 (bukseutageuraemeo)Translations
Cite this entry
APA

bookstagrammer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bookstagrammer

MLA

“bookstagrammer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bookstagrammer. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bookstagrammer,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bookstagrammer.

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