MCP Books MCP Server

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-books": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-books"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

[mcp_servers.mcp-books]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "mcp-books"]

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-books": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-books"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-books": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-books"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: BOOKS_USER_AGENT (Identify your own client. The project's own identifier is appended, so an archive can always reach a human.), BOOKS_MIN_INTERVAL_MS (Widen 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_MS (Deadline for one request to an archive, in milliseconds. Default 45000.), BOOKS_MAX_RETRIES (Retries on rate limiting and transient failures. Default 3.), BOOKS_CACHE_TTL_MS (In-memory cache lifetime, in milliseconds. Default 900000. Set 0 to turn it off.), BOOKS_CACHE_MAX_ENTRIES (In-memory cache size. Default 200.), BOOKS_LOG_LEVEL (silent, error, info or debug. Default error. Logs go to stderr.). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.