Bookternet
English
Etymology
Blend of book + Internet.
Proper noun
Bookternet
- The online community and subculture of book lovers.
- 2014, Maris Kreizman, "Publishing: A Story", in Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York (ed. Sari Botton), page 171:
- I was inspired by all my newfound Bookternet friends—readers, writers, bloggers, booksellers, publishing world types, and fellow refugees.
- 2018, Rebecca Hill, "Read Another Book: Repeat When Necessary", in Reversing the Cult of Speed in Higher Education: The Slow Movement in the Arts and Humanities (eds. Jonathan Chambers & Stephannie S. Gearhart), page 176:
- Through Goodreads, I was drawn into the world of the “bookternet,” an internet subculture of book-geeks, mostly young women who may have started their reading fanaticism with Harry Potter.
- 2019, "Acknowledgements", in Christine Riccio, Again, but Better, page 376:
- To my whole Booktube, Bookternet family, ALL OF YOU: Thank you for being the best, kindest, most welcoming, most understanding, most supportive, gorgeous friends a girl could ask for.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Bookternet.
- 2014, Maris Kreizman, "Publishing: A Story", in Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York (ed. Sari Botton), page 171:
Hyponyms
- Booklr (Tumblr)
- Bookstagram (Instagram)
- BookTube (YouTube)