Books & editions
Matched by ISBN, including the original ISBN and EAN fields. Without an ISBN, by title and author, and you confirm the edition.
For LibraryThing readers
Every book you’ve catalogued is a way to say hello.
Bring your library to BookLovers with collections, tags, half stars and reviews intact. Then meet the readers who share your shelf, for friendship or a date.
- Free import
- Preview every match
- LibraryThing stays as it is
Your catalogue, kept whole
Years of careful cataloguing. Nothing left behind.
You didn’t just log books. You sorted them, tagged them, rated them by the half star and wrote about the ones that mattered. All of it comes with you.
Collections → listsTags, up to 50 a bookHalf-star ratingsPublished reviewsDate read & startedPrivate comments stay private
Your libraryprivate list748
Favoritesprivate list56
Signed copiesyour own collection name49
Currently readingsets your reading status104
★½Ratings & tagskept on every book★★★★½
Counts from an example 967-book library.
YYou748 books
AveryBrooklyn · 3 mi
AveryBrooklyn · 3 mi
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BOOKS IN COMMON · A PLACE TO START“You both kept Piranesi. Which room of the House would you live in?”
BookmarkSay hello
See who shares your shelf
The books you share start the conversation.
Open another reader’s profile and see the covers you both kept, with a question about one of them. No small talk about the weather. Just the book you both couldn’t put down.
Matching weighs the books you share most, then authors, then genres. A shelf of 700 careful choices says more than any bio.
Friendship or a date. You choose.
Meet readers for friendship, or something more.
Look for book friends, dating, or both, and change it whenever you like. Dating suggestions respect both readers’ preferences; friendship appears only when you both welcome it.
Book friendsDatingBoth
Saying hello is free. BookLovers Plus ($2.99 a month) is optional, for unlimited connections and exploring another city.
2016
The first BookLovers app: readers match through their favourite books, make friends and chat.
2017
Android arrives, with discussions and reviews.
2024
Matching for book friends or dating: liked you, you liked, matches.
Today
Shared shelves on every profile, reading circles, and your whole library on the web.
Three steps, about five minutes
You did the cataloguing. We’ll do the moving.
1
Export from LibraryThing
Sign in on the web and open the export page. Choose JSON. It carries collections, tags, ratings and reviews.
2
Preview every match
Upload the file. We match each book to an edition and show anything that needs your choice, like a book with several editions.
3
Meet who shares it
Add your books, visit your shelf, and see what you have in common with every reader you open.
A clear picture before you move
What comes with you.
Collections
Each one becomes a private list with the same name. Currently reading, To read and Read but unowned set your reading status.
Tags
Up to 50 on every book, editable in its reading record and included whenever you export your library.
Ratings & dates
Half stars stay half stars. Date read, date started and entry date come across when they’re valid.
Reviews
Reviews you published appear on the book page and your profile, unless you tick “keep private”. Private comments always stay private.
What stays on LibraryThing
Your connections, groups and Talk posts aren’t part of the import. BookLovers never writes back to your account.
“A shelf is the most honest profile there is. Ours just lets it introduce you.”
Do I have to leave LibraryThing?
No. Your export is a copy. Importing it changes nothing on LibraryThing, and you can keep using both.
Is this a dating site?
It’s a reading community first. Your library, lists and circles work without ever meeting anyone. If you’d like to meet readers, you choose book friends, dating, or both, and you can change it any time.
What if the wrong edition appears?
Search for another edition inside the preview, or enter its ISBN. Unmatched books stay in your report, and you can return to the import for 30 days.
My library is very large. Will it fit?
Each file can hold up to 5,000 books and 5 MB. If yours is larger, write to us and we’ll help you bring it over.
Can I take my books with me again?
Yes. Download your whole BookLovers library at any time, including tags, ratings and your private reading details.
Is BookLovers connected to LibraryThing?
No. BookLovers is an independent reading community. The import only uses the export file you choose to upload.
Your shelf, introduced
Your shelf already knows who you’d get along with.
Bring it home. It takes about five minutes, and everything you’ve catalogued comes with you.