ReadingRate

MCP server · hosted · v1.0.1 · com.readingrate/readingrate

Online · tested 7h agoNEW · 8h agoSeen in the registry 7h ago

Book difficulty, reading times and ranked lists, plus your reading log, quotes and clubs.

What it does

ReadingRate is an MCP server, a connector that lets an AI assistant use it as a tool. It is hosted: an assistant connects to it over the internet, nothing to install.

No capability identified yet from its description.

Facts come from the Official MCP Registry, as declared by the publisher. Capabilities are matched automatically (low confidence). None of this is a test of the tool.

At a glance

Hosted (remote)YES

Local installNO

Live checkOnline · 42 tools

Version1.0.1

PriceNot in the registry

First seen02 Nov 2026

Last checked7h ago

How to connect

As declared in the Official MCP Registry · hosted endpoint tested by Electra Index 7h ago (live check)

Hosted endpoint

https://mcp.readingrate.com/mcp streamable-http

In Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http readingrate https://mcp.readingrate.com/mcp

MCP settings (Claude Desktop, Cursor and other MCP clients)

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "readingrate": {
      "url": "https://mcp.readingrate.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Live check

Electra Index connected to the hosted endpoint 7h ago

ONLINE ReadingRate answered an MCP connection on 02 Nov 2026 and introduced itself as readingrate 1.0.0 (MCP protocol 2025-06-18).

42 tools offered to AI assistants

search_books · Searches the ReadingRate book catalog by title, author, genre, theme or difficulty, and shows the results as book cards. Each result carries a difficulty score from 0 to 100, built from nine scored dimensions of how hard the prose and the m
get_book_details · Gives one book's full ReadingRate analysis and shows its difficulty profile as a radar chart: nine difficulty dimensions and four literary-regard dimensions, each scored 0 to 100 with a written reason, plus the book's description, genres, t
compare_books · Sets two or three books side by side and shows them as a comparison grid. Aspects: "difficulty" (overall and per-dimension scores, and each book's hardest and easiest dimensions), "themes" (shared and distinct), "length" (word count and rea
get_award_winners · Lists the winners, shortlists and longlists of the literary prizes ReadingRate tracks, grouped by year, newest first. The prizes include the Booker Prize, the International Booker Prize, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Awa
get_top_books · Returns the top of one of the ranked book lists published on readingrate.com: the highest-ranked books from a country, in an original language, of a genre or on a subject, by women or by men, or at a difficulty. With no filter it returns Re
lookup_books_batch · Matches a list of books to the ReadingRate catalog in one call, from ISBNs, titles, or titles with authors, and returns each match's ReadingRate analysis with a confidence level (exact, high, medium, low). Matching tolerates misspellings, s
get_poem · Returns the text of a poem in the ReadingRate collection, with numbered lines. Titles, epigraphs, dedications and stage directions are marked apart from the verse. A long work in sections, such as an epic, returns its list of sections unles
search_poems · Searches the words of every poem in the ReadingRate collection and returns the matching lines, the lines around each, and each poem's anchor, which get_poem, save_poem_line and annotate_poem_line accept. Use when the user half-remembers a l
get_currently_reading · Lists the books the reader is reading now, from their ReadingRate library: current page, percent complete, pages left, and the hours left at their own logged reading pace. Also lists poems they have recently read again, with how many times.
get_reading_history · Lists the books in the reader's ReadingRate library with their status (read, reading, want to read, stopped), rating, start and finish dates, and the reader's own reflection, newest activity first. Use when the user asks what they have read
get_reading_days · Lists the page the reader reached on each day of one reading of a book in their ReadingRate library: for each day, the furthest page, the page they left off at, the pages read and the percent of their copy. Use when the user asks how far th
get_reading_stats · Summarizes the reader's ReadingRate reading record: reading speed from their logged sessions, the difficulty range they usually read, their most-read genres and themes, books per month, and how they rate books. Use when the user asks how fa

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get_reading_goals · Shows the reader's yearly book goal from ReadingRate and their progress toward it: books finished, books left, whether they are on track, the pace needed, and books finished per month. When no goal is set, it says so and suggests one from t
get_personalized_recommendations · Recommends books from the ReadingRate catalog for this reader, matched to the difficulty range they usually read, the genres and themes they return to, and their reading pace, with the reasons for each pick and a reading-time estimate at th
search_book_content · Searches the text of one book or one poem for passages about a topic, by meaning rather than exact words, and returns the passages with page and chapter (books) or the line and its neighbours (poems), plus a relevance score. Use when the us
get_passages_near_reading_position · Returns passages of text from a book the reader is reading, taken from the pages just before their current position in ReadingRate, with their progress in the book. It finds the book and the page itself, so the reader does not have to name
get_reading_notes · Returns what the reader has noted about their reading in ReadingRate: their highlights and notes, insights ReadingRate generated about their reading, and the reading insights they saved, each with its id. Pass book_id for one book's notes,
find_related_passages · Finds the quotes and notes in the reader's ReadingRate collection that are closest in meaning to one of their saved quotes or notes, across all their books, with each passage's book, author, page and a similarity score from 0 to 1. Use when
get_daily_reading_connections · Returns today's connections in the reader's reading: passages from different books they are reading, and from their saved quotes and notes, that share a theme, with the theme named and a question to reflect on. The first call each day creat
get_reading_trajectory · Returns written insights about how the reader's reading has been changing: genres they are exploring, authors they return to, their pace, and how their themes are shifting. When none are current, ReadingRate generates them first: it sends t
get_monthly_reading_summary · Returns ReadingRate's summary of one calendar month of the reader's reading: books finished, time and pages read, the difficulty of what they read, highlights, and how the month compares with the year so far. Summaries are made after each m
summarize_reading_period · Builds a summary of the reader's reading between two dates, up to a year apart: books finished, time and pages read, the difficulty of what they read and highlights. ReadingRate computes it from the reader's records and saves it in their ac
get_poetry_reading_stats · Summarizes the reader's poetry reading in ReadingRate: the poems they keep returning to, ranked by how often and how recently they read each one, with read counts and last-read dates; how many lines they know by heart; and whether they read
list_reading_domains · Lists the reading domains (genres, cultures, periods and themes) the reader has made progress in through ReadingRate, with their mastery stage in each (newcomer, exploring, well read, analytical, expert), books completed and time spent. Up
get_reading_domain · Describes the reader's progress in one reading domain in ReadingRate: their mastery stage, books, words and hours read, quotes and reflections, and what the next stage requires. Use when the reader asks about their progress in a particular
get_poetic_form_mastery · Shows how widely the reader has read poetry in ReadingRate, by poetic form (sonnet, ode, ...), by era and by poet: distinct poems read, total reads and a mastery stage for each. Use when the reader asks which forms of poetry they have read,
list_book_clubs · Lists the ReadingRate book clubs the reader belongs to, with their role in each and the book each club is reading now. Use when the reader asks about their book clubs or what their clubs are reading. For one club's members and past books, u
get_book_club · Describes one of the reader's ReadingRate book clubs: its description, how many members it has and their usernames and roles, and its five most recent books. Use when the reader asks about a particular club of theirs: who is in it, or what
get_book_club_current_read · Returns the book one of the reader's ReadingRate clubs is reading now, with its reading schedule: each milestone's pages, due date and discussion questions. Use when the reader asks what their club is reading, how far they should be by now,
list_saved_quotes · Lists the quotes and passages the reader has saved in ReadingRate, newest first, with page, speaker, notes and themes. Can be narrowed to one book or to quotes containing given words. Use when the user asks for their saved quotes or highlig
save_quote · Saves a passage the reader asks to keep to their ReadingRate quotes, under a book in their library, with optional page, speaker, notes and themes. Saved quotes also appear in the ReadingRate app and in quote review. Use when the user asks t
list_quotes_due_for_review · Lists the reader's saved quotes and memorized poem passages that are due for review today in ReadingRate's spaced-repetition practice, earliest first, with how many poem lines they know by heart. Use when the reader asks to be quizzed on th
record_quote_review · Records how well the reader recalled one saved quote or poem passage during review, on a 0 to 5 scale, and reschedules its next review: good recall pushes the next review further out, poor recall brings it back soon. It replaces the item's
add_book_to_library · Adds one book to the reader's ReadingRate library. It goes on the want-to-read list unless a status is given: "reading" for a book they are reading now, "read" for one they have finished (with an optional rating and finish date), or "stoppe
add_matched_books_to_library · Adds up to 40 books to the reader's ReadingRate library in one call, by ReadingRate book id, all on the same shelf (want-to-read unless a status is given). Books already in the library are left where they are and listed. Use after lookup_bo
update_book_status · Moves a book that is already in the reader's ReadingRate library to another status: "reading" (sets the start date if there is none), "read" (sets the finish date, with an optional rating), "stopped", or "want_to_read" (clears the finish da
log_reading_session · Logs reading for a book in the reader's ReadingRate library: pages read, the page they reached, or a note. It sets the book's current page, adds the pages to today's entry in their reading journal, and adds the note to that entry. One journ
delete_reading_insight · Permanently deletes one reading insight the reader saved in ReadingRate, with the conversation record attached to it. It cannot be undone. A copy the reader's Notion already received stays in their Notion, and the result says so. Use when t
log_poem_read · Records that the reader read a poem from the ReadingRate collection, adding one read to its count. Poems the reader returns to often rank higher in get_poetry_reading_stats, and recent reads can feature in their daily reading connections. A
save_poem_line · Saves one line of a poem to the reader's ReadingRate quotes, tied to its exact place in the poem, with an optional note. Saved lines appear with their other quotes and come up in quote review. Use when the reader asks to save, keep or remem
annotate_poem_line · Writes the reader's note on one line of a poem to their ReadingRate notes: a reading, a connection, a reaction. The line is not saved as a quote. Use when the reader wants to record a thought about a specific line of a poem. To save the lin
save_reading_insight · Saves a reading insight to the reader's ReadingRate account: a short summary and the key takeaways, in the reader's terms, about one or more books in their library, with optional topics. It is stored with those books, appears in their Readi

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Facts & evidence

Each fact shows where it was seen and when.

Fact	Value	Evidence	Source	Last confirmed
Hosted endpoint	https://mcp.readingrate.com/mcp	DECLARED	SRC-001 Official MCP Registry	7h ago
Local install (package)	no	DECLARED	SRC-001 Official MCP Registry	7h ago
Remote access (hosted)	yes	DECLARED	SRC-001 Official MCP Registry	7h ago
Website	https://readingrate.com	DECLARED	SRC-001 Official MCP Registry	7h ago
Repository	https://github.com/simonsbookclub/readingrate-plugin	DECLARED	SRC-001 Official MCP Registry	7h ago
Registry status	active	DECLARED	SRC-001 Official MCP Registry	7h ago
Version	1.0.1	DECLARED	SRC-001 Official MCP Registry	7h ago
MCP server	yes	DECLARED	SRC-001 Official MCP Registry	7h ago

Change history

NEW02 Nov 2026
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Questions about ReadingRate

How do I connect ReadingRate?

Use the hosted endpoint https://mcp.readingrate.com/mcp in your assistant's MCP settings. The exact settings are in "How to connect" above, as declared in the Official MCP Registry.

What tools does ReadingRate offer?

When Electra Index connected on 02 Nov 2026, it listed 42 tools: search_books, get_book_details, compare_books, get_award_winners, get_top_books, lookup_books_batch, get_poem, search_poems and more. The full list is in "Live check" above.

Is ReadingRate online?

Yes. Its hosted endpoint answered an MCP connection from Electra Index 7h ago.