About ReadingRate
ReadingRate provides a book catalog and reading tracker for readers using Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini CLI, or Cursor. Its catalog offers difficulty, reading-time, literary-regard, prize, and ranked-list data, while an account adds personal reading records and clubs.
Key features
- 01Browse difficulty scores in nine dimensions
- 02View reading times and ranked lists
- 03Identify books from shelf photos or lists
- 04Track reading progress and saved notes
- 05Prepare book-club meetings
Use cases
- 01Choose a book based on available reading time
- 02Plan a path into a country's literature
- 03Discuss a finished book using saved passages
- 04Prepare meeting questions within pages read
MCP support
The plugin connects to ReadingRate's remote MCP server at https://mcp.readingrate.com/mcp. The server provides catalog data and, with an account, access to a reader's library, log, quotes, notes, and book clubs.
Configuration
Remote servers need no local install. Pick your client, then copy the config or install in one click.
https://mcp.readingrate.com/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http com-readingrate-readingrate https://mcp.readingrate.com/mcp{"mcpServers":{"com-readingrate-readingrate":{"type":"http","url":"https://mcp.readingrate.com/mcp"}}}Open in Cursor{"servers":{"com-readingrate-readingrate":{"type":"http","url":"https://mcp.readingrate.com/mcp"}}}Open in VS Code{"mcpServers":{"com-readingrate-readingrate":{"type":"http","url":"https://mcp.readingrate.com/mcp"}}}{"mcpServers":{"com-readingrate-readingrate":{"serverUrl":"https://mcp.readingrate.com/mcp"}}}Run commands in a terminal; paste JSON into the client’s MCP config and restart. Servers that need sign-in will prompt on first connect.
Tools
Details
From the project READMEReadingRate
ReadingRate's book catalog and reading tracker, for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini CLI and Cursor. The plugin connects the ReadingRate server (https://mcp.readingrate.com/mcp) and adds six skills that walk an assistant through the things readers ask for most.
| Skill | What it does | Account |
|---|---|---|
shelf-to-library | Identifies the books in a photo of a shelf or a pasted list, and adds them to the reader's library when asked | Identifying: none. Adding: connected |
log-reading | Logs reading from a plain sentence: pages read, the page reached, a book started, finished or set aside | Connected |
next-book | Chooses the next book by the time the reader has, their pace and the difficulty they usually read | Optional |
where-to-start | Lays out a reading path into a country's, a language's, a period's or a genre's literature, from ReadingRate's ranked lists | Optional |
book-debrief | Talks through a finished book from the passages and notes the reader saved, and keeps the conclusions if they want | Connected |
book-club-prep | Prepares for a club meeting: the schedule, the pages left, and questions within the pages read | Connected |
The catalog works without an account: difficulty scores in nine dimensions, reading times, literary regard, prizes and ranked lists. A ReadingRate account (https://readingrate.com) connects the reader's library, reading log, quotes, notes and book clubs.
Privacy policy: https://readingrate.com/privacy. Support: https://readingrate.com/contact.
Install in Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add simonsbookclub/readingrate-plugin
/plugin install readingrate-books@readingrate
Install in Gemini CLI
gemini extensions install https://github.com/simonsbookclub/readingrate-plugin
Sign in with /mcp auth readingrate, or when Gemini asks the first time a tool needs your account.
Any other app
Add the server address https://mcp.readingrate.com/mcp as a remote (Streamable HTTP) MCP server. It signs in with OAuth, so there is no key to copy. The server is listed in the MCP Registry as com.readingrate/readingrate.
License
The skills and manifests in this plugin are under the MIT License (LICENSE). The ReadingRate service they connect to has its own terms: https://readingrate.com/terms.
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