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 [![MIT/Apache-2 licensed](https://img.shields.io/crates/l/mdbook-rust)](./LICENSE-APACHE)
 
 Enhanced Rust support for MDBook.
+
+- Any chapters written as Rust source files will be translated to Markdown, allowing you to test your book as a Rust crate. It's like literate programming in reverse (illiterate programming).
+- Everything else is left alone.
+
+This Rust code:
+
+```rust
+fn body() {
+    // # Heading
+    //
+    // Paragraph text.
+    some_code();
+}
+```
+
+will be converted to:
+
+````markdown
+# Heading
+
+Paragraph text.
+
+```rust
+some_code();
+```
+````
+
+See [`examples/book`](https://github.com/simon-bourne/mdbook-rust/tree/main/examples/book) for a complete example.