Access your Apple Books library, annotations, reading progress, and highlights through Claude
Connect Runs on your machine
claude mcp add apple-books-mcp -e APPLE_BOOKS_MCP_ENABLE_WRITES=<APPLE_BOOKS_MCP_ENABLE_WRITES> -e APPLE_BOOKS_DATA_DIR=<APPLE_BOOKS_DATA_DIR> -e APPLE_BOOKS_MCP_THREADS=<APPLE_BOOKS_MCP_THREADS> -e APPLE_BOOKS_QUERY_TIMEOUT=<APPLE_BOOKS_QUERY_TIMEOUT> -- uvx apple-books-mcp==0.9.0{
"mcpServers": {
"apple-books-mcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"apple-books-mcp==0.9.0"
],
"env": {
"APPLE_BOOKS_MCP_ENABLE_WRITES": "<APPLE_BOOKS_MCP_ENABLE_WRITES>",
"APPLE_BOOKS_DATA_DIR": "<APPLE_BOOKS_DATA_DIR>",
"APPLE_BOOKS_MCP_THREADS": "<APPLE_BOOKS_MCP_THREADS>",
"APPLE_BOOKS_QUERY_TIMEOUT": "<APPLE_BOOKS_QUERY_TIMEOUT>"
}
}
}
}{
"mcpServers": {
"apple-books-mcp": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"apple-books-mcp==0.9.0"
],
"env": {
"APPLE_BOOKS_MCP_ENABLE_WRITES": "<APPLE_BOOKS_MCP_ENABLE_WRITES>",
"APPLE_BOOKS_DATA_DIR": "<APPLE_BOOKS_DATA_DIR>",
"APPLE_BOOKS_MCP_THREADS": "<APPLE_BOOKS_MCP_THREADS>",
"APPLE_BOOKS_QUERY_TIMEOUT": "<APPLE_BOOKS_QUERY_TIMEOUT>"
}
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"apple-books-mcp": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"apple-books-mcp==0.9.0"
],
"env": {
"APPLE_BOOKS_MCP_ENABLE_WRITES": "<APPLE_BOOKS_MCP_ENABLE_WRITES>",
"APPLE_BOOKS_DATA_DIR": "<APPLE_BOOKS_DATA_DIR>",
"APPLE_BOOKS_MCP_THREADS": "<APPLE_BOOKS_MCP_THREADS>",
"APPLE_BOOKS_QUERY_TIMEOUT": "<APPLE_BOOKS_QUERY_TIMEOUT>"
}
}
}
}Replace the values in angle brackets with your own. Keys stay on your machine; we never see them.
Tools
This server runs locally, so its tools are listed by your MCP client once it starts.
Environment variables
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
APPLE_BOOKS_MCP_ENABLE_WRITESOptional | 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. |
APPLE_BOOKS_DATA_DIROptional | Folder holding the Apple Books stores (BKLibrary and AEAnnotation), if not ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.iBooksX/Data/Documents. |
APPLE_BOOKS_MCP_THREADSOptional | How many tool calls may run at once (default 8; 0 runs them one at a time on the event loop). |
APPLE_BOOKS_QUERY_TIMEOUTOptional | Seconds a library query may run before it is stopped (default 30; 0 for no limit). |
Details
| Package | [email protected] (PYPI, stdio) |
| Package | https://github.com/vgnshiyer/apple-books-mcp/releases/download/v0.9.0/[email protected] (MCPB, stdio) |
| First published | 1 Oct 2026 |
| Last updated | 1 Oct 2026 |
| Registry name | io.github.vgnshiyer/apple-books-mcp |
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