I’ve been using (mainly) Claude to help me find research papers and open access textbooks. I had been manually downloading the papers myself, adding/organizing them in Zotero and sending them to my kindle. I decided to see if there was a way I could do this from claude directly. So I built an MCP server that I’m calling paperboy that allows you to ask Claude for papers, organize them in Zotero and send them to your e-reader (I’m working on integrating more e-readers).

You can run the mcp server locally or deploy it to Google Cloud Run with an OAuth client if you want to use to from the Claude.ai UI. There is a setup wizard, a deploy script in the repo and some documentation to help you get this setup.

I wanted to share in case it’s useful to anyone else. If you do try it and have feedback or issues please let me know or open an issue!