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@@ -63,4 +63,9 @@ This library provides quite a lot of access to the metadata included in any mobi
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+
+## Retrieving Author and Title
+The author and title of a book can be retrieved using the author() and title()
+methods respectively on a Mobi() object. The parse() method needs to have
+already been called.