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/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.

Best fit

125 made for this, ranked by starsRemoteLocal
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. ETH Library @malkreide/eth-library-mcpETH Library Discovery API6% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.1 GitHub stars.
  14. Swiss academic libraries @malkreide/swiss-academic-libraries-mcpSwiss academic libraries + open-access Swiss legal literature (SRU/OAI-PMH, no API key)3% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.1 GitHub stars.
  15. Goodreads MCP @danathar/goodreads-mcp-aiRead-only MCP server for Goodreads (no API required): search, books, shelves, ratings3% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from PyPI.
  16. DOAB @mrfentmen/doab-mcpKeyless open access books search (DOAB).5% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from npm.
  17. DPLA @mrfentmen/dpla-mcpDPLA API: search millions of library items and collections.5% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from npm.
  18. Teneo Book Generation @traviseric/teneo-book-mcpPublish-ready nonfiction books from a topic: manuscript, cover, PDF/EPUB/DOCX. Free outline to try.6% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from npm.
  19. ForgeMesh Library MCP @forgemeshlabs/library-mcpA paid public-domain knowledge base for AI agents: full-text search, book metadata, chapters.4% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from npm.
  20. Calibre-Web @ni-c/calibreweb-mcpRead-only MCP server for Calibre-Web: library search, browsing and covers via the OPDS feed3% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from npm.
  21. Audiobookshelf @ni-c/audiobookshelf-mcpBrowse your Audiobookshelf libraries and keep listening progress, bookmarks and playlists in sync3% chance this is malicious. Assessed by AI, which can make mistakes.Runs on your machine, installed from npm.

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