Bookternet

English

Etymology

Blend of book +‎ Internet.

Proper noun

Bookternet

1. The online community and subculture of book lovers.
   • 2014, Maris Kreizman, “Publishing: A Story”, in Sari Botton, editor, Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York, 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 Jonathan Chambers, Stephannie S. Gearhart, editors, Reversing the Cult of Speed in Higher Education: The Slow Movement in the Arts and Humanities, 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.

Hyponyms

• Booklr (Tumblr)
• Bookstagram (Instagram)
• BookTok (TikTok)
• BookTube (YouTube)