Hey Product Hunt! 👋
Maker here. I created the Apple Books MCP because I was tired of my reading not being hidden from me.
I cover a lot — ~9,000 quotes in ~90 books. But those highlights stay in the Apple Books app, and once you underline something, it basically disappears. You can’t ask “What am I thinking about this week?” You can’t pick up a quote that you vaguely remember. You can’t have a conversation about a book with someone who actually knows what grabbed your attention in it.
Claude + MCP changes this. This server exposes your entire Apple Books library — books, highlights, notes, reading progress, genres, and (new in v0.7.0) the chapter text itself — so you can ask Claude real questions:
“Summarize what I’ve covered this week”
“What am I in the middle of reading, and gathering dust?”
“Pick up where I left off—take me back to the chapter I was reading last night.”
“Find everywhere Dawkins wrote about kin selection in my library”
The magic isn’t a single question – it’s that your reading becomes a surface you can talk to. Claude doesn’t forget what books you’ve engaged with or what topics you’ve cycled through.
A few things I think:
local-first: Nothing leaves your machine. Your data resides in Apple Books’ SQLite files, which this server reads (never writes).
Open source (Apache 2.0, GitHub)
Listed on the MCP Registry. And uvx can be installed via apple-books-mcp.
What’s next: Access to PDF content (it’s just EPUB for now), paragraph-level grounding for highlights (so referenced context reaches paragraph boundaries instead of character windows), and a one-click “summary reading” prompt for whatever book is open.
Long term I want it to feel like reading side by side with someone who has read every book on your shelf.
Would love to hear what questions you would ask your library. Happy to answer anything about architecture (MCP tools vs resources vs prompts was a fun design space) or roadmap.
Thanks for checking it out 📚
– Vignesh