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Bookternet
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English
Etymology
en :blend book<id:Q571> Internet 1 +
Pronunciation
en /ˈbʊk.təˌnɛt/ RP
en /ˈbʊk.tɚˌnɛt/ GA
Proper noun
The online community and subculture of book lovers.
en 2014 Sari Botton Maris Kreizman Publishing: A Story Never Can Say Goodbye: Writers on Their Unshakable Love for New York https://books.google.com/books?id=dPxtAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA171&dq=%22bookternet%22 171 I was inspired by all my newfound Bookternet friends—readers, writers, bloggers, booksellers, publishing world types, and fellow refugees.
en 2018 Jonathan Chambers; Stephannie S. Gearhart Rebecca Hill Read Another Book: Repeat When Necessary Reversing the Cult of Speed in Higher Education: The Slow Movement in the Arts and Humanities https://books.google.com/books?id=T_h1DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA176&dq=%22bookternet%22 176 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.
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Hyponyms
en Booklr Tumblr
en Bookstagram Instagram
en BookTok TikTok
en BookTube YouTube
en Books Internet