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maintenanceSearch, browse, and read 75,000+ public-domain books from Project Gutenberg with full plain-text retrieval and offset/limit chunking via MCP.
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Fireside Folio
Server Details
Free public-domain books, puzzles, museum art and encyclopedia articles, sent to your e-reader.
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- 100.0% over the last 24 hours
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TDQS
A3.7/5.0
Scored across 13 tools
Disambiguation4/5
Most tools are clearly separated by resource (library, museum, encyclopedia, news) and by action (search vs. send vs. queue). The one genuinely subtle boundary is between add_reading_topics (queue encyclopedia articles for the next edition) and send_encyclopedia_articles (deliver immediately as a book), plus save_for_later vs. add_reading_topics, but the descriptions do call out the timing difference explicitly.
Naming Consistency4/5
Almost everything is snake_case verb_noun (search_library, send_museum_pieces, subscribe_to_news_source), which is predictable and readable. Minor deviations: todays_wikipedia has no verb, and get_my_fireside / save_for_later are idiomatic rather than strictly verb_object.
Tool Count5/5
13 tools is well within the sweet spot and each maps to a distinct content source or delivery action. Nothing feels redundant or padded for the scope of an e-reader content delivery service.
Completeness4/5
Each content source has both a discovery and a delivery path (library, museum, encyclopedia, news), and there is a status tool plus a manual edition trigger, so core workflows are covered. Gaps remain: no way to remove queued reading topics or unsave a link, no detail/inspect tool for catalogue or museum items before sending, and no way to list saved links except via the aggregate get_my_fireside.
Available Tools
13 toolsadd_reading_topicsQueue encyclopedia articlesAInspect
Add encyclopedia articles (Wikipedia or 1911 Britannica, by title) to the reader's Daily reads; a few arrive in each edition.
Inputs: articles (required).
find_news_sourcesFind blogs and news sitesARead-onlyInspect
Search the blogs, newsletters and news sites a reader can add to their Daily reads edition. Returns an id for each source.
Inputs: query (required).
get_my_firesideMy Fireside FolioARead-onlyInspect
The signed-in reader's connected devices and Daily reads setup (schedule, subscriptions, saved links, queued topics, last edition).
Inputs: no named parameters.
save_for_laterSave a web page for laterAInspect
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 now=true.
Inputs: url (required), now, title.
search_encyclopediaSearch the encyclopediasBRead-onlyInspect
Search Wikipedia and the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica for articles to read on an e-reader. Returns each article's source and title.
Inputs: query (required), source.
search_librarySearch the free libraryARead-onlyInspect
Search Fireside Folio's free catalogue: classic and open-licence books, children's picture books, comics, magazines, puzzle books (sudoku, mazes, crosswords-style puzzles, calcudoku…), printable templates, planners and handwriting or maths practice sheets. Returns an id for each item.
Inputs: query (required), kind, limit, language.
search_museumSearch the museumARead-onlyInspect
Search hundreds of thousands of public-domain artworks from The Met, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Art, the Rijksmuseum, the Cleveland Museum of Art and SMK (Denmark): paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, maps, manuscripts, sculpture and more. Use a room for a curated theme. Returns a ref for each work.
Inputs: era, kind, page, room, +2 more.
send_daily_edition_nowSend a Daily reads edition nowAInspect
Put together the reader's Daily reads edition now (new articles, saved links, newsletters, topics) and send it to their device. Takes a few minutes to arrive.
Inputs: no named parameters.
send_encyclopedia_articlesSend encyclopedia articles nowBInspect
Send up to 20 encyclopedia articles (Wikipedia or 1911 Britannica, by title) to the reader's e-reader right away, as one small book.
Inputs: articles (required), device.
send_museum_piecesSend artworks to my e-readerAInspect
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 exhibition booklet with a contents page and credits.
Inputs: refs (required), device, booklet_title.
send_to_my_deviceSend to my e-readerAInspect
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 licensed items exist; nothing is purchased.
Inputs: id (required), device.
subscribe_to_news_sourceAdd a news source to Daily readsBInspect
Add (or remove) a blog or news site, by its id, in the reader's Daily reads edition.
Inputs: id (required), subscribe.
todays_wikipediaToday on WikipediaBRead-onlyInspect
Wikipedia's featured article of the day and its 'On this day' events.
Inputs: no named parameters.
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