Books & reading MCP servers

A server here finds books, reading lists or libraries.

Not here: academic papers.

171servers
114 remote57 localTagged by Odel's AI, which can make mistakes
By GitHub stars, at most two per publisher
  1. Number 1: Open Library@8ensmith/mcp-open-librarySearch books and authors on the Internet Archive's Open Library2% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from npm.95 GitHub stars.
  2. Number 2: Apple Books@vgnshiyer/apple-books-mcpAccess your Apple Books library, annotations, reading progress, and highlights through Claude5% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.61 GitHub stars.
  3. Number 3: Source Library@embassy-of-the-free-mind/sourcelibrarySearch 15K rare pre-modern texts translated to English: philosophy, religion, science, literature.3% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.A remote server; no sign-in.21 GitHub stars.

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125 made for this, ranked by starsRemoteLocal
  1. Source Library @embassy-of-the-free-mind/source-librarySearch 22,000+ rare pre-modern texts with AI English translations, summaries, and 73K+ images.3% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from npm.21 GitHub stars.
  2. Books & Papers MCP Server @jmrplens/libgen-mcpFederated search of books and papers, formatted citations, open-access retrieval and reading.6% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.A remote server; no sign-in.19 GitHub stars.
  3. Calibre @caelum29/calibre-mcpCalibre ebook library server: search, read content, curate metadata, semantic search, gated writes.3% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from npm.16 GitHub stars.
  4. Rakuten @mrslbt/rakuten-mcpRakuten Web Service for AI: Ichiba, Books, Travel, Recipe, Kobo, GORA — bilingual, read-only.5% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from npm.5 GitHub stars.
  5. Context Book @aditya201551/context-book-mcpStop re-explaining yourself to Agents. Give it the right context, right when needed.5% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.A remote server; no sign-in.5 GitHub stars.
  6. Shanghai Library Open Data @freyabit/shanghai-library-open-data-mcp上海图书馆开放数据检索 MCP:纪年/家谱/建筑/红色事件/99 个 webapi + 搜韵诗词,支持 stdio 与 HTTP。4% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.4 GitHub stars.
  7. openlibrary-mcp-server @cyanheads/openlibrary-mcp-serverSearch books and authors, fetch editions, browse subjects, and resolve cover images.2% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.A remote server; no sign-in.4 GitHub stars.
  8. gutenberg-mcp-server @cyanheads/gutenberg-mcp-serverMCP server for Project Gutenberg: 75,000+ public-domain ebooks with full plain-text retrieval.3% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.A remote server; no sign-in.3 GitHub stars.
  9. Open Agent Search @jayanth-mkv/open-agent-searchSearch the web, news, images, videos and books, and extract page content for AI agents.Not assessed yet.Runs on your machine, installed from npm.2 GitHub stars.
  10. Anna's Archive @sokolskynikita/annas-mcpSearch Anna's Archive for ebooks and papers by title, author or DOI and download the file you pick.7% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from npm.2 GitHub stars.
  11. Librarian @terobyte/librarianDeterministic ebook-to-markdown pipeline with MCP tools to browse, search, and read your books.2% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.2 GitHub stars.
  12. Achriom @achriom/achriomMedia memory for AI agents and their humans: books, movies, music, shows, anime, podcasts, games.6% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.A remote server; you sign in with your account.2 GitHub stars.
  13. Proseify @dionisselami/proseify-mcpMCP book-writing server: 81 classics, genre recipes, drafting pipelines.7% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.A remote server; you sign in with your account.1 GitHub stars.
  14. Na Openapi @rubatoyd/na-openapi-mcpNational Assembly Library of Korea catalog search (books, theses, articles, bills)4% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from MCPB.1 GitHub stars.
  15. BookMCP @prem5123/bookmcpCited book knowledge for agents working on system design and implementation.3% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from MCPB.1 GitHub stars.
  16. Nl Openapi @rubatoyd/nl-openapi-mcpNational Library of Korea holdings search - books, online materials, KDC classification4% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from MCPB.1 GitHub stars.
  17. Archiveorg @smeet666/mcp-archiveorgSearch inside digitised books, browse the Internet Archive catalogue and read Wayback captures.7% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from npm.1 GitHub stars.
  18. Nl OpenAPI @rubato103/nl-openapi-mcpNational Library of Korea Seoji OpenAPI search via REST API and local metadata harvesting4% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from MCPB.1 GitHub stars.
  19. Junifye @publifye/junifyeWrite books, studies & commentaries with your AI — EPUB, print-ready PDF, web reader, ISBN, RTL7% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.A remote server; you sign in with your account.1 GitHub stars.
  20. Slima @slima-ai/slimaMCP Server for Slima - AI Writing IDE for Novel Authors with AI Beta Reader.5% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.A remote server; no sign-in.1 GitHub stars.
  21. Audiobookshelf @sierikov/audiobookshelf-mcpBrowse libraries, search books, and control playback in your self-hosted Audiobookshelf instance.4% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from MCPB.1 GitHub stars.

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