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+# fingertips: a simple search engine
+
+This repository contains some example code from the book “Programming Rust”, by
+Jim Blandy and Jason Orendorff. Specifically, this holds the full code for the
+text indexer sketched in Chapter 19, “Concurrency”.
+
+See the doc comments atop [main.rs] for a little more detail.
+
+## License
+
+The example code in this directory and its subdirectories is licensed under the
+terms of the MIT license. See [LICENSE-MIT] for details.
+
+[main.rs]: src/main.rs
+[LICENSE-MIT]: LICENSE-MIT