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<h1 id="reading-books"><a class="header" href="#reading-books">Reading Books</a></h1>
<p>This chapter gives an introduction on how to interact with a book produced by mdBook.
This assumes you are reading an HTML book.
The options and formatting will be different for other output formats such as PDF.</p>
<p>A book is organized into <em>chapters</em>.
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<p>The sidebar may not automatically appear if the window is too narrow, particularly on mobile displays.
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</span>println!("Hello, World!");
<span class="boring">}</span></code></pre></pre>
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