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@@ -6,6 +6,12 @@ A compact encoder / decoder pair that uses an binary zero-fluff encoding scheme.
 The size of the encoded object will be the same or smaller than the size that
 the object takes up in memory in a running Rust program.
 
+In addition to exposing two simple funcitons that encode to `Vec<u8>` and decode 
+from `Vec<u8>`, binary-encode exposes a Reader/Writer API that makes it work 
+perfectly with other stream-based apis such as rust files, network streams,
+and the [flate2-rs](https://github.com/alexcrichton/flate2-rs) compression
+library.
+
 [Api Documentation](http://tyoverby.github.io/binary-encode/binary_encode/)
 
 ## Example