Chapter One — Dating for Book Lovers

The books we love say a lot about us. Find meaningful connections with other readers.

For Book Lovers by Book Lovers

Chapter One is for people in love with books and looking for someone to share them with.

Chapter One is developed by LibraryThing, where millions of book lovers keep their personal library and track their reading. We come from books, not AI or dating apps.

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Create meaningful connections with other readers.

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Nadia Portland, ME · 4 miles

Literary Fiction Poetry Sci‑Fi

Favorite Authors

UKL GE JB

Book Places

Discover Characters Chats Me

Discover. One reader at a time — the whole profile, not a card to flick away.

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The Opener

The book I press on everyone.

I have bought this eleven times and given away eleven copies. Ask me about the ending and clear your evening.

The Left Hand of Darkness The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin

The Opener

A book I gave up on, and why.

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The Opener

The shelf I would rescue first.

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Discover Characters Chats Me

Openers. Answer a question, pin the actual book to it. That is the conversation, started.

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Beloved Piranesi Pachinko

Match!

You both loved the same books.

Say hello

The reveal. When a like comes back mutual, your two libraries meet on screen.

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Yesterday

Start with the book you both loved.

Nobody has to think of an opening line. The shelf already gave you one.

Piranesi Piranesi Susanna Clarke

Last week

Three chapters in and still arguing.

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Discover Characters Chats Me

Chats. A conversation that starts at a shared book, not at "hey".

Start with books and see where it goes

Questions worth answering.

The book you press on everyone. The one you abandoned. Answer, then pin the real book to it — pulled from the largest catalogue of readers’ books in the world.

The profile is your shelves.

Favorite genres, favorite authors, the small facts that only readers ask about. It reads like a person, because it is one.

Somewhere to actually meet.

Your bookshops, your libraries, the café with the good back room. Find them near you, keep the ones you love, and have a first date with a plan.

You both loved the same books.

Not a number out of a hundred. The covers themselves, turning over on screen — and then a chat that already has something to say.

Tell me what you read, and I will tell you who you are.

— the whole idea, more or less

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