# mdBook: create online books from Markdown files, README overview

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- updated: 2026-11-07T16:31:44.365Z
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The README presents mdBook as a tool that turns Markdown files into an online book.

Source: https://github.com/rust-lang/mdbook

What it supplies: The README presents mdBook as a tool that turns Markdown files into an online book.

Useful for: - Publish documentation or a long-form text as a navigable web book.

First action: - Open the User Guide for features, installation and usage.

Prerequisites and limits: The README gives no install steps or requirements; the User Guide holds them.

- The README is a pointer; practical steps are in the User Guide, which was not read.

Source-documented: Mozilla Public License v2.0 for the repository code.

Written from the README text only. Statements are as the README gives them; nothing was installed or run.
Based on the full short README text; the User Guide was not read. Nothing was installed or run.

Source inspected: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rust-lang/mdBook/0accb8a3ff59e311c60e2267581fea6407d64c73/README.md ; 1049 bytes ; sha256 25d6f218da18298d5b9d61c6a50d5bd3ea83237b30ff47ddfd52138dbc855ef8 ; 3 exact pinned excerpts in the draft pin map

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