Books MCP server

by smeet666·io.github.smeet666/mcp-books·v2.0.1

Search the Internet Archive, the Library of Congress and data.bnf.fr at once, in one answer.

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If you have run it, two minutes of your experience saves the next person an afternoon.

No tool declarations could be read from the package source. They show once the server is installed.

Not scanned yet. New registry listings are scanned within a day of import.

Runs npx -y mcp-books on your machine. Read the scan report first; the gateway never runs local packages.

claude mcp add mcp-books -- npx -y mcp-books

Is Books MCP server safe?: Not known yet: the safety scan has not run. New listings are scanned within a few days.
How do I install Books?: It runs on your machine. Copy the Claude Code, Claude Desktop or Cursor config from the install section.
Does Books need an API key?: No secret keys are declared. It reads 7 settings from the environment.
Is Books maintained?: The latest release is v2.0.1.
What can I use instead of Books?: Servers from other publishers that do the same job: Internet Archive MCP server, LetsFG — Flights & Hotels MCP server and Zotero MCP server. Compare all Books alternatives.

Same job from other publishers: the closest match first, then the best rated.

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Search the Wayback Machine and IA library (40M+ items), fetch snapshots, item metadata, and text.
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LetsFG — Flights & Hotels
Search and book flights and hotels: hundreds of airlines, plus bookable hotel rates.
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Zotero MCP
Search, read, annotate, and add to your Zotero research library, local or web.
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HasData Bing
Bing search results with the ad block and Copilot answer, geo and market targeting, as JSON.
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Books & Papers MCP Server
Federated search of books and papers, BibTeX/RIS citations, open-access retrieval and reading.
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Local package. It runs on your machine, not through the gateway.

BOOKS_USER_AGENTIdentify your own client. The project's own identifier is appended, so an archive can always reach a human.
BOOKS_MIN_INTERVAL_MSWiden the gap between two requests to one archive. Each archive keeps its own spacing when this is unset, and this can only make it wider.
BOOKS_TIMEOUT_MSDeadline for one request to an archive, in milliseconds. Default 45000.
BOOKS_MAX_RETRIESRetries on rate limiting and transient failures. Default 3.
BOOKS_CACHE_TTL_MSIn-memory cache lifetime, in milliseconds. Default 900000. Set 0 to turn it off.
BOOKS_CACHE_MAX_ENTRIESIn-memory cache size. Default 200.
BOOKS_LOG_LEVELsilent, error, info or debug. Default error. Logs go to stderr.

Claim it to keep the listing current and reply to reviews. Claiming never changes the grade or hides a review.

Shows the safety grade and links back to this page. It updates itself after every scan and review.

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