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+#Books Without Borders
+This is an attempt at a rewrite of the Books Without Borders plugin. This rewrite uses the
+source code given at [the original bukkit page](https://dev.bukkit.org/projects/books-without-borders).
+I'm not planning any new features at this time. The only goal is to make it 1.17.1 compliant, but I'll make the code
+more maintainable along the way.
+While the original version still works, it's using a lot of depreciated function calls which will
+most likely break in the future.
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