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Tinder for booklovers: the new app matching like-minded readers

When Tania O’Donnell was dating, she met a man online and went back to his place … where he proudly showed off his book collection.

“It was about 20 books on Nazi Germany and 10 Andy McNab novels,” says O’Donnell, an author. “I could feel my vulva constructing its own chastity belt.”

A more edifying tale: Hannah Love, senior publicity manager by Peter S Beagle) and read it before their first real-life date, to which he brought his favourite book to lend to her (from the Song of the Lioness series by ), thus securing at least a second date for her to return the book.

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