translate-epub vs Librarian
translate-epub is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by aiocean. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Claude Code: claude-plugins-community). Librarian is an MCP server published by Terobyte. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Official MCP Registry). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-22. This pair was picked by a reader, not by our comparison rule, so search engines are asked not to index the page.
Where each is published
| Marketplace |  translate-epub |  Librarian |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code: claude-plugins-community | Listed Version: 4.0.3 Forks (GitHub): 1 Stars (GitHub): 4 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Official MCP Registry | Not listed | Listed Version: 0.1.1 Downloads/month (PyPI): 104 Downloads/week (PyPI): 24 Forks (GitHub): 1 Stars (GitHub): 2 Not marked · First seen |
Each figure is the marketplace's own and is never added up across marketplaces. A marketplace that publishes no figure shows none: no number is not zero.
The facts side by side
| Fact | translate-epub | Librarian |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it | 1 | 1 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 4 (better) | 2 (worse) |
| Forks (GitHub) | 1 | 1 |
| Last release | Not published | Not published |
| Where it runs (differs) | Installs as a plugin bundle | On your machine (librarian-cli) |
| Transport (differs) | Not stated | stdio |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for (differs) | Not published | 1, secrets among them: 0 |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 9 | Not a bundle |
| Licence (differs) | MIT | Not stated |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/aiocean/claude-plugins | github.com/terobyte/librarian-cli |
| Changes in the last 7 days | 0 | 0 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-10-12 | 2026-10-11 |
Lines where the two differ have a tinted background and bold values. Where the data itself says which value is better (more marketplaces, a larger figure of the same marketplace, a fresher release, a verified mark on a marketplace that lists both), the better one is also marked green with ▲ and the worse one red with ▼. Where it runs, the transport, the tools, the settings, hooks, the bundle's parts, the licence and the week's changes are marked only as different: more or fewer is not better in itself.
What each says it does
translate-epub
Translate entire books with literary-quality Vietnamese using Claude as your translator. Upload EPUBs, translate chapter by chapter with cross-chapter consistency, automatically detect poor translations, and export polished bilingual or Vietnamese-only EPUBs.
Librarian
Deterministic ebook-to-markdown pipeline with MCP tools to browse, search, and read your books.
How to run each
translate-epub As a Claude Code plugin
/plugin marketplace add anthropics/claude-plugins-community
/plugin install translate-epub@claude-communityLibrarian As a local MCP server: PyPI package
claude mcp add --transport stdio librarian -- uvx librarian-cliCommands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.
Tools each declares
Neither one's marketplaces publish a list of tools, so there is nothing to compare.
Settings each asks for
The marketplaces of translate-epub publish no settings it asks for, so we do not compare settings.
What it can do: translate-epub · What it can do: Librarian · Compare two other plugins
Data comes from the public marketplace file https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-community/blob/HEAD/.claude-plugin/marketplace.json. Data comes from the Official MCP Registry (registry.modelcontextprotocol.io), CC0 1.0. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on . We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.