Hey Product Hunt! 👋

Maker here. I built Apple Books MCP because I was tired of my reading being invisible to me.

I highlight a lot — nearly 9,000 passages across ~90 books. But those highlights live in the Apple Books app, and once you underline something, it essentially disappears. You can't ask "what have I been thinking about this week?" You can't pull up a quote you vaguely remember. You can't have a conversation about a book with anything that actually knows what caught your attention in it.

Claude + MCP changes that. This server exposes your whole Apple Books library — books, highlights, notes, reading progress, genres, and (new in v0.7.0) chapter text itself — so you can ask Claude real questions:

"Summarize what I've highlighted this week"
"What am I in the middle of reading, and what's collecting dust?"
"Pick up where I left off — walk me back into the chapter I was reading last night"
"Find everywhere in my library Dawkins wrote about kin selection"

The magic isn't any single query — it's that your reading becomes a surface you can talk to. Claude doesn't forget which books you've engaged with or what themes you circle.

A few things I care about:

Local-first: nothing leaves your machine. Your data stays in Apple Books' SQLite files, which this server reads (never writes).
Open source (Apache 2.0, GitHub)
Listed on MCP Registry and installable via uvx apple-books-mcp

What's next: PDF content access (it's EPUB-only for now), paragraph-level grounding for highlights (so quoted context snaps to paragraph boundaries instead of character windows), and a one-click "resume reading" prompt for whatever book is open.

Long-term I want this to feel like reading side-by-side with someone who's read every book on your shelf.

Would love to hear what questions you'd ask your library. Happy to answer anything about the architecture (MCP tools vs. resources vs. prompts was a fun design space) or the roadmap.

Thanks for checking it out 📚

— Vignesh