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BookTube

/ˈbʊk.t͡ʃuːb/US/ˈbʊk.tub/

BookTube proper noun: the community of book and reading-related channels on YouTube.

Proper noun

BookTube

  1. The community of book and reading-related channels on YouTube.
    • By introducing BookTube to students studying literature, teachers may be able to inspire additional engagement in both the reading and the reports or other assignments that are based on it.2014, Marohang Limbu, Binod Gurung, Emerging Pedagogies in the Networked Knowledge Society: Practices Integrating Social Media and Globalization: Practices Integrating Social Media and Globalization...
    • I started my own BookTube channel in 2014 as a way to review books and talk about my writing.2019, Jen Campbell, "BookTube", in Giles Clark & Angus Phillips, Inside Book Publishing, page 271

Origin of BookTube

Blend of book + YouTube. By surface analysis, book + -Tube.

Words formed from BookTube

Questions about BookTube

What does BookTube mean?
BookTube means the community of book and reading-related channels on YouTube.
What part of speech is BookTube?
BookTube is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce BookTube?
BookTube is pronounced /ˈbʊk.t͡ʃuːb/.

Words near BookTube in the dictionary

  1. BookToker
  2. BookTokers
  3. BookTokker
  4. BookTokkers
  5. BookToks
  6. BookTube
  7. booktuber
  8. booktubers
  9. Bookwalter
  10. Bookwalters
  11. bookward

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: BookTube (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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