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+Database.BBDB
+=============
+
+A relatively primitive (but working) Haskell library to read and write
+BBDB (Insidious Big Brother Database) files.  One major goal was to be
+able to have the following be the identity function:
+
+```Haskell
+d <- readBBDB "/path/to/.bbdb"
+-- d is now a Haskell data type
+writeFile (asLisp d) "path/to/copy-of-.bbdb"
+```
+
+Because of this goal, the interface is based on lists, and tends to be
+a lot of work to get to the actual data you are looking for.  Sorry
+about that.
diff --git a/bbdb.cabal b/bbdb.cabal
--- a/bbdb.cabal
+++ b/bbdb.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name:                bbdb
-Version:             0.6
+Version:             0.6.1
 Synopsis:            Ability to read, write, and modify BBDB files
 Description:         BBDB (http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/bbdb/) is a
                      contact management utility that can be used with
@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@
 Category:            Database
 Build-type:          Simple
 Extra-source-files:  changelog.md
+                     LICENSE
+                     README.md
+                     test/sampleData.txt
+                     
 Cabal-version:       >=1.8
 
 Library
diff --git a/test/sampleData.txt b/test/sampleData.txt
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+;; -*-coding: utf-8-emacs;-*-
+;;; file-format: 9
+["Henry" "Laxen" nil ("Henry, Enrique") ("Elegant Solutions") (["home" "+52 (376) 765-3181"]) (["home" ("Villa Alta #6" "Gaviotas #10") "Chapala" "Jalisco" "45900" "Mexico"] ["mailing" ("10580 N. McCarran Blvd." "#115-396") "Reno" "Nevada" "89503" "USA"]) ("nadine.and.henry@pobox.com") ((notes . "Always split aces and eights") (birthday . "6/15") (tennis . "chapala") (mail-alias . "ldm, ldma, ldmb") (spouse . "Nadine")) "169cc701-8754-45f5-aba8-c89c2dc60a49" "2010-09-03" "2017-11-06 13:58:33 +0000" nil]
+["first" "lastname" nil nil ("organization1" "organization2") (["cell" "+1 (111) 111-1111"] ["home" "52 (111) 111-1111"]) (["home" ("street line 1" "street line 2" "street line 3" "street line 4") "City" "State Country" "11111" "Mexico"]) ("email1" "email2") ((notes . "notes here")) "4b16fe92-080b-4090-bb5f-e2141ce4e661" "2015-08-10 01:50:36 +0000" "2016-04-12 03:45:51 +0000" nil]