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A reading copilot for your Apple Books.

Apple Books MCP gives Claude access to your books, highlights, and reading progress.

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See it in practice.

Pick up where you left off

Claude sees the chapter you're in, what you've highlighted, and where you left the book — ask it anything about what you're reading right now.

This week, synthesized

Your highlights clustered into reading sessions and threaded into a narrative — not a list of quotes, but what you were actually thinking about.

Your library's shape

Totals, patterns, and honest observations. The themes you actually return to.

One-click workflows

Prompts and an attachable resource, right in Claude's picker:

  • weekly_digest
  • explain_recent_highlight
  • what_am_i_reading
  • library_snapshot
  • revisit_book
  • Attach Currently Reading

Quickstart

Requires uv on macOS.

brew install uv
uvx apple-books-mcp

Then add to your Claude Desktop config. Your data stays local.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apple-books": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["apple-books-mcp@latest"]
    }
  }
}

Local-first. Open source. Made for readers.

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