MCP Books MCP Server

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MCP Books runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 402 installs a week from npm. Last commit 1 Sep 2026.

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

Installs per day peak 165 · avg 10

a month agotoday

402

Installs / week

npm · mcp-books

Stars

1 open issues

1 Sep 2026

Last commit

0 releases in 90 days

MIT

License

TypeScript

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check MCP Books every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

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 Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

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

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

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

~/.codex/config.toml

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

.cursor/mcp.json

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

.vscode/mcp.json

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

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MCP Books — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for MCP Books?

MCP Books runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package mcp-books was installed 402 times last week.

How do I connect MCP Books?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls mcp-books straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use MCP Books?

The npm package mcp-books was installed 402 times in the last week. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is MCP Books open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript, 0 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.