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Free public-domain books, puzzles, museum art and encyclopedia articles, sent to your e-reader.
Remote server: your requests and data go to firesidefolio.com. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http fireside-folio https://firesidefolio.com/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.
search_library — Search Fireside Folio's free catalogue: classic and open-licence books, children's picture books, comics, magazines, puzzle books (sudoku, msearch_encyclopedia — Search Wikipedia and the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica for articles to read on an e-reader. Returns each article's source and title.todays_wikipedia — Wikipedia's featured article of the day and its 'On this day' events.find_news_sources — Search the blogs, newsletters and news sites a reader can add to their Daily reads edition. Returns an id for each source.search_museum — Search hundreds of thousands of public-domain artworks from The Met, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Art, the Rijksmussend_museum_pieces — Send one to 30 artworks (by their museum refs) to the reader's e-reader as full-page pictures. With a booklet title, they arrive as an exhibget_my_fireside — The signed-in reader's connected devices and Daily reads setup (schedule, subscriptions, saved links, queued topics, last edition).send_to_my_device — Send a book, children's book, comic, magazine, puzzle book or template (by its catalogue id) to the reader's e-reader. Only free, openly licsave_for_later — Save a public web page (an article or blog post) to read later. It arrives in the reader's next Daily reads edition — or straight away with add_reading_topics — Add encyclopedia articles (Wikipedia or 1911 Britannica, by title) to the reader's Daily reads; a few arrive in each edition.send_encyclopedia_articles — Send up to 20 encyclopedia articles (Wikipedia or 1911 Britannica, by title) to the reader's e-reader right away, as one small book.subscribe_to_news_source — Add (or remove) a blog or news site, by its id, in the reader's Daily reads edition.send_daily_edition_now — Put together the reader's Daily reads edition now (new articles, saved links, newsletters, topics) and send it to their device. Takes a few Not tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.