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Apple Books MCP

An MCP server that allows AI agents to access the user's Apple Books library, including reading progress, highlights, annotations, and book search capabilities. It supports listing collections, retrieving chapter text, and clustering highlights by theme to aid in reading reflection and discovery.

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Apple Books MCP logo, by vgnshiyerCommunity listingLocal stdioSource reviewed; not executedPublished by vgnshiyer
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  • Popularity 64 GitHub stars

What you can do with it

  • Retrieve current reading progress and chapter text
  • Search for books by title or author
  • List and manage reading collections
  • Cluster highlights by theme for reflection

Source and maintenance

Community listingRegistry 0.9.0Apache-2.0
mcp-registry: io.github.vgnshiyer/apple-books-mcp@0.9.0Source repositoryProject website
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Latest release
v0.9.0
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apple-books-mcp 0.9.0

pypiuvx
apple-books-mcp package definition
{
  "version": "0.9.0",
  "transport": "stdio",
  "identifier": "apple-books-mcp",
  "runtimeHint": "uvx",
  "registryType": "pypi",
  "registryBaseUrl": "https://pypi.org",
  "environmentVariables": [
    {
      "name": "APPLE_BOOKS_MCP_ENABLE_WRITES",
      "format": "boolean",
      "default": "false",
      "description": "Allow the collection write tools (create, rename and delete collections; add and remove books). Writes refuse to run while Books is open and take a backup first."
    },
    {
      "name": "APPLE_BOOKS_DATA_DIR",
      "format": "filepath",
      "description": "Folder holding the Apple Books stores (BKLibrary and AEAnnotation), if not ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.iBooksX/Data/Documents."
    },
    {
      "name": "APPLE_BOOKS_MCP_THREADS",
      "format": "number",
      "default": "8",
      "description": "How many tool calls may run at once (default 8; 0 runs them one at a time on the event loop)."
    },
    {
      "name": "APPLE_BOOKS_QUERY_TIMEOUT",
      "format": "number",
      "default": "30",
      "description": "Seconds a library query may run before it is stopped (default 30; 0 for no limit)."
    }
  ]
}

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  • · backfill · recorded · Pre-expansion baseline; unobserved rich metadata remains unknown

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Cursor

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Cursor configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apple-books-mcp-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "apple-books-mcp==0.9.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "APPLE_BOOKS_MCP_ENABLE_WRITES": "<YOUR_APPLE_BOOKS_MCP_ENABLE_WRITES>",
        "APPLE_BOOKS_DATA_DIR": "<YOUR_APPLE_BOOKS_DATA_DIR>",
        "APPLE_BOOKS_MCP_THREADS": "<YOUR_APPLE_BOOKS_MCP_THREADS>",
        "APPLE_BOOKS_QUERY_TIMEOUT": "<YOUR_APPLE_BOOKS_QUERY_TIMEOUT>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cline

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Cline configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apple-books-mcp-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "apple-books-mcp==0.9.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "APPLE_BOOKS_MCP_ENABLE_WRITES": "<YOUR_APPLE_BOOKS_MCP_ENABLE_WRITES>",
        "APPLE_BOOKS_DATA_DIR": "<YOUR_APPLE_BOOKS_DATA_DIR>",
        "APPLE_BOOKS_MCP_THREADS": "<YOUR_APPLE_BOOKS_MCP_THREADS>",
        "APPLE_BOOKS_QUERY_TIMEOUT": "<YOUR_APPLE_BOOKS_QUERY_TIMEOUT>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

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VS Code configuration
{
  "servers": {
    "apple-books-mcp-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "apple-books-mcp==0.9.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "APPLE_BOOKS_MCP_ENABLE_WRITES": "<YOUR_APPLE_BOOKS_MCP_ENABLE_WRITES>",
        "APPLE_BOOKS_DATA_DIR": "<YOUR_APPLE_BOOKS_DATA_DIR>",
        "APPLE_BOOKS_MCP_THREADS": "<YOUR_APPLE_BOOKS_MCP_THREADS>",
        "APPLE_BOOKS_QUERY_TIMEOUT": "<YOUR_APPLE_BOOKS_QUERY_TIMEOUT>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

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Claude Desktop configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "apple-books-mcp-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "apple-books-mcp==0.9.0"
      ],
      "env": {
        "APPLE_BOOKS_MCP_ENABLE_WRITES": "<YOUR_APPLE_BOOKS_MCP_ENABLE_WRITES>",
        "APPLE_BOOKS_DATA_DIR": "<YOUR_APPLE_BOOKS_DATA_DIR>",
        "APPLE_BOOKS_MCP_THREADS": "<YOUR_APPLE_BOOKS_MCP_THREADS>",
        "APPLE_BOOKS_QUERY_TIMEOUT": "<YOUR_APPLE_BOOKS_QUERY_TIMEOUT>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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