Never build a relationship on books
For all you book lovers (that's just taken on a whole new meaning) out there, this made me laugh. It's about Borders' new dating service for bibliophiles. Here's a snippet:
On the face of it, if you're a singleton given to lonely walks on blasted heaths with a copy of a suitably impressive paperback poking eye-catchingly out of your jacket pocket, this might sound like just what you need. But to be honest, you'd be better off hanging out in the Sainsbury's vegetable aisle than on a dating website aimed at book-lovers: a shared appreciation of baby sweetcorn is a far more solid foundation for lasting love than a shared appreciation of Nabokov. In fact, that way madness lies.
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And before things started to go publicly, horribly, harrowingly wrong, imagine how dull a couple who were both into the same books would be ... Does any home really need two copies of everything on their bookshelf? Whose editions get sent to the charity shop?