ReadingRate · What's new · 2026-04-08
Connect your reading to Claude and ChatGPT
ReadingRate exposes your reading through MCP, so Claude, ChatGPT and other assistants can work from your actual library once you authorise it. Looking up a book needs no account. With a free account an assistant can log a reading day, add a book, save a quote and read your own log back to you. On Reader it can also analyse your reading: what to read next from your rated books and saved quotes, how your taste is moving, and which passages in a book you uploaded support an interpretation you're forming.
Available on web and iOS.
The useful uses are narrow and worth naming. Asking about a book you're midway through is one, because the assistant knows what page you're on and the internet doesn't. Testing an interpretation against the text is another, and it's the strongest: you supply the reading, it does the retrieval.
Forty-five tools are exposed, in three groups. Eight read the catalogue and need no account: search, full book details with all nine difficulty dimensions, comparisons between two books, award winners, the ranked best-books lists, and the poems. Seventeen come with a free account: what you're reading and how far in, your history, stats, goals, notes and saved quotes, and the writing — log a session, add a book, update a book's status, save a quote, link two quotes. Twenty are part of Reader: recommendations, your reading domains, the connections between your quotes, search inside books you uploaded, monthly summaries, and filing an insight from the conversation itself.
There is a Claude plugin with six skills built on the same connection: turn a shelf photo into a library, log reading, choose a next book, find where to start with an author or subject, debrief a finished book, and prepare for a book club. There is a Gemini CLI extension too.
The page at /ai shows the setup for each assistant and what to ask first.
What it can't do
- Analysis is part of Reader. Looking up books, logging and reading your own log back are free.
- ChatGPT connects through its Developer Mode, which needs a paid ChatGPT plan. ReadingRate is not listed in ChatGPT's own directory.
- A book's text is served only to the reader who uploaded their own copy of it. Being in the public domain does not open a text.
- Assistants confidently invent quotations and page numbers. Anything attributed to the text should be checked against the text.
- The server does not make images.
- Asking for a summary of a book you meant to read is the one use that reliably makes you a worse reader.
Questions people ask
- Can ChatGPT or Claude see what I'm reading?
- Only if you connect them. ReadingRate provides an MCP connection so an assistant can see your progress, library and saved quotes once you authorise it.
- Is the AI connection free?
- Partly. Looking up any book needs no account, and with a free account an assistant can log your reading and read your own log back. Analysis of your reading, such as recommendations, domains and searching inside your books, is part of Reader.
- What can I ask Claude about my reading?
- On a free account: what you're currently reading and how far in, your reading stats and history, your goals and your saved quotes, and you can ask it to log a session, update a book's status, add a book or save a quote. On Reader you can also ask what to read next, how your quotes connect and which subjects you've read most deeply in.