I came across a new word on Instagram today – shelfie, a portmanteau of shelf and selfie meaning, according to Wiktionary, “a photograph of a bookshelf/bookcase taken by its owner and shared on social media.”

The context I saw the word was even more specific – language shelfies, i.e. a photo of a bookshelf containing language courses, dictionaries, and other language-related books.

So here are a few of my language shelfies:

This is a non-language shelfie. Can you guess who my favourite author is?

You can see larger versions of these shelfies on Flickr.

Are there equivalents of selfie or shelfie in other languages?