Meanings
bookstagrammer1
plural bookstagrammers
- 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
plural Bookstagrammers · alternative bookstagrammer
- 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 372 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 84We 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
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂ǵosder.?
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰeh₂g-der.?
- Proto-Germanic*bōks
- Proto-West Germanic*bōk
- Old Englishbōc
- Middle Englishbok
- Englishbook
- Proto-Indo-European*énu
- Latinin-
- Proto-Indo-European*steh₂-
- Proto-Indo-European*sth₂éh₁yeti
- Proto-Italic*staējō
- Proto-Italic*staēō
- Latinstō
- Latinīnstō
- Latinīnstāns
- Old Frenchinstant
- Middle Englishinstant
- Latinīnstān
- Frenchinstant
- Englishinstant
- Proto-Indo-European*kh₂em-
- Proto-Indo-Iranian*kmárati
- Proto-Iranian*kamarā
- Ancient Greekκαμάρα (kamára)
- Latincamera
- Englishcamera
- Englishinstant cameraellip.
- Englishinstant
- Proto-Indo-European*kʷelh₁-
- Ancient Greekτῆλε (têle)
- Englishtele-
- Proto-Indo-European*gerbʰ-
- Proto-Hellenic*grə́pʰō
- Ancient Greekγρᾰ́φω (grắphō)
- Ancient Greekγράμμα (grámma)
- Englishtelegram
- EnglishInstagram
- EnglishBookstagram
- EnglishBookstagrammer
From Bookstagram + -er.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Korean 북스타그래머
- 북스타그래머 (bukseutageuraemeo)Translations
Cite this entry
bookstagrammer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bookstagrammer
“bookstagrammer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bookstagrammer. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bookstagrammer,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bookstagrammer.
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