diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d83646a..f758d32 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Tee
 
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 A rustlang adapter for readers which delegate read bytes to a writer, adapted from the standard library's `std::io::Read#tee` which has since been deprecated.
 
@@ -31,4 +31,6 @@ With `tee`, this looks more like
 let tee_reader = tee::TeeReader::new(reader, writer);
 ```
 
+However, importing `TeeExt` will allow usage exactly like the original stdlib function.
+
 Doug Tangren (softprops) 2015
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 5647556..5885d1f 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,3 +1,21 @@
+//! An adapter for objects implementing `Read` which copies read bytes and writes them to a
+//! provided reader.
+//!
+//! # Example
+//!
+//! ```rust
+//! # extern crate tee;
+//! use std::io::Read;
+//! use tee::TeeExt;
+//! # fn main() {
+//! let reader = "It's over 9000!".as_bytes();
+//! let mut teeout = Vec::new();
+//! let mut stdout = Vec::new();
+//! reader.tee(&mut teeout).read_to_end(&mut stdout).unwrap();
+//! assert_eq!(teeout, stdout);
+//! # }
+//! ```
+
 use std::io::{Read, Result, Write};
 
 /// An adapter for readers whose inputs
@@ -13,6 +31,7 @@ impl<R: Read, W: Write> TeeReader<R, W> {
     /// writer. The write operation must complete before the read completes.
     ///
     /// Errors reported by the write operation will be interpreted as errors for the read
+    #[inline]
     pub fn new(reader: R, writer: W) -> TeeReader<R, W> {
         TeeReader {
             reader: reader,
@@ -22,6 +41,7 @@ impl<R: Read, W: Write> TeeReader<R, W> {
 }
 
 impl<R: Read, W: Write> Read for TeeReader<R, W> {
+    #[inline]
     fn read(&mut self, buf: &mut [u8]) -> Result<usize> {
         let n = try!(self.reader.read(buf));
         try!(self.writer.write_all(&buf[..n]));
@@ -29,6 +49,19 @@ impl<R: Read, W: Write> Read for TeeReader<R, W> {
     }
 }
 
+/// An extension trait, allowing `.tee()` to be constructed in the same manner as the old
+/// `std::io::Tee`.
+pub trait TeeExt: Sized + Read {
+    fn tee<W: Write>(self, writer: W) -> TeeReader<Self, W>;
+}
+
+impl<R: Read> TeeExt for R {
+    #[inline]
+    fn tee<W: Write>(self, writer: W) -> TeeReader<R, W> {
+        TeeReader::new(self, writer)
+    }
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
     use super::*;
@@ -45,4 +78,13 @@ mod tests {
         }
         assert_eq!(teeout, stdout);
     }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn tee_ext() {
+        let reader = "It's over 9000!".as_bytes();
+        let mut teeout = Vec::new();
+        let mut stdout = Vec::new();
+        reader.tee(&mut teeout).read_to_end(&mut stdout).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(teeout, stdout);
+    }
 }