diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index b341f7b..203fc94 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ description = "a no-nonsense unreal pak parsing crate"
 license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"
 keywords = ["modding", "parsing", "compression"]
 categories = ["filesystem", "parser-implementations"]
-version = "0.1.0"
+version = "0.2.0"
 edition = "2021"
 
 # See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d5a8e3e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+# unpak
+## a no-nonsense unreal pak parser
+- doesn't force files to be extracted
+- only converts entries to bytes when requested
+- supports up to frozen index (4.25) paks (planned support for higher)
+- supports compressed and encrypted paks
+- supports iteration over entries
+## [click for example code](https://github.com/bananaturtlesandwich/unpak/blob/master/examples/unpak.rs)
+## the problem
+looking at the libraries for pak reading, they were never not quite right for what i wanted to do:
+- [rust-u4pak](https://github.com/panzi/rust-u4pak) - excellent support but very limited api
+- [ue4pak](https://github.com/Speedy37/ue4pak-rs) - excellent api but no support for extraction
+- [unrealpak](https://github.com/AstroTechies/unrealmodding/tree/main/unreal_pak) - excellent api but only supports version 8
+- [rust-unreal-unpak](https://crates.io/crates/rust-unreal-unpak) - is async only supports version 10
+
+so i just though *fuck it i'll do it myself* and did it myself
+
+## references
+although the api of [rust-u4pak](https://github.com/panzi/rust-u4pak) wasn't very friendly, the [`README`](https://github.com/panzi/rust-u4pak#readme) went into beautiful detail into the intricacies of the file format and when the readme had incorrect info *cough cough* `encryption uuid` *cough cough* the source code also had the answers as long as you looked hard enough
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/examples/list.rs b/examples/list.rs
deleted file mode 100644
index e5f0423..0000000
--- a/examples/list.rs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-fn main() -> Result<(), unpak::Error> {
-    let pak = unpak::Pak::new(
-        std::io::BufReader::new(std::io::Cursor::new(include_bytes!("rando_p.pak"))),
-        unpak::Version::CompressionEncryption,
-        None,
-    )?;
-    for file in pak.files() {
-        println!("{file}");
-    }
-    Ok(())
-}
diff --git a/examples/subcommands/list.rs b/examples/subcommands/list.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fac3d43
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/subcommands/list.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+pub fn list(path: String, key: String) -> Result<(), unpak::Error> {
+    for file in super::load_pak(path, key)?.files() {
+        println!("{file}");
+    }
+    Ok(())
+}
diff --git a/examples/subcommands/mod.rs b/examples/subcommands/mod.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..92ed864
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/subcommands/mod.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+mod list;
+mod unpack;
+mod version;
+pub use {list::list, unpack::unpack, version::version};
+
+fn load_pak(
+    path: String,
+    key: String,
+) -> Result<unpak::Pak<std::io::BufReader<std::fs::File>>, unpak::Error> {
+    for ver in unpak::Version::iter() {
+        match unpak::Pak::new(
+            std::io::BufReader::new(std::fs::OpenOptions::new().read(true).open(&path)?),
+            ver,
+            match key.as_bytes() {
+                &[] => None,
+                key => Some(key),
+            },
+        ) {
+            Ok(pak) => {
+                return Ok(pak);
+            }
+            _ => continue,
+        }
+    }
+    Err(unpak::Error::Other("version unsupported"))
+}
diff --git a/examples/subcommands/unpack.rs b/examples/subcommands/unpack.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..61baf55
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/subcommands/unpack.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+pub fn unpack(path: String, key: String) -> Result<(), unpak::Error> {
+    let folder = std::path::Path::new(
+        std::path::Path::new(&path)
+            .file_stem()
+            .and_then(|name| name.to_str())
+            .unwrap_or_default(),
+    );
+    let mut pak = super::load_pak(path.clone(), key)?;
+    for file in pak.files() {
+        std::fs::create_dir_all(folder.join(&file).parent().expect("will be a file"))?;
+        match pak.get(&file).expect("file should be in pak") {
+            Ok(data) => std::fs::write(folder.join(&file), data)?,
+            Err(e) => eprintln!("{e}"),
+        }
+    }
+    Ok(())
+}
diff --git a/examples/subcommands/version.rs b/examples/subcommands/version.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8cf1eac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/subcommands/version.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+pub fn version(path: String, key: String) -> Result<(), unpak::Error> {
+    println!("{}", super::load_pak(path, key)?.version());
+    Ok(())
+}
diff --git a/examples/unpack.rs b/examples/unpack.rs
deleted file mode 100644
index 8c5a74a..0000000
--- a/examples/unpack.rs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-fn main() -> Result<(), unpak::Error> {
-    let mut pak = unpak::Pak::new(
-        std::io::BufReader::new(std::io::Cursor::new(include_bytes!("rando_p.pak"))),
-        unpak::Version::CompressionEncryption,
-        None,
-    )?;
-    for file in pak.files() {
-        std::fs::create_dir_all(
-            std::path::Path::new(&file)
-                .parent()
-                .expect("will be a file"),
-        )?;
-        match pak.get(&file).expect("file should be in pak") {
-            Ok(data) => std::fs::write(&file, data)?,
-            Err(e) => eprintln!("{e}"),
-        }
-    }
-    Ok(())
-}
diff --git a/examples/unpak.rs b/examples/unpak.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..484d0bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/unpak.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+mod subcommands;
+
+fn main() {
+    let mut args = std::env::args();
+    args.next();
+    let Some(path) = args.next() else {
+        help()
+    };
+    // can't map key to &[u8] because refers to owned data
+    match match args.next().unwrap_or_default().as_str() {
+        "version" => subcommands::version(path, args.next().unwrap_or_default()),
+        "list" => subcommands::list(path, args.next().unwrap_or_default()),
+        "unpack" | "" => subcommands::unpack(path, args.next().unwrap_or_default()),
+        "help" | _ => help(),
+    } {
+        Ok(_) => println!("success!"),
+        Err(e) => eprintln!("{e}"),
+    }
+}
+
+fn help() -> ! {
+    println!("{HELP}");
+    std::process::exit(0)
+}
+
+const HELP: &str = r"
+usage:
+unpak <file> <subcommand> <optional AES key>
+                OR
+drag the file onto the executable
+
+subcommands:
+help - show this message
+unpack - decompress the pak
+list - print the files in the pak
+version - print the version of the pak
+";
diff --git a/examples/version.rs b/examples/version.rs
deleted file mode 100644
index b1ba3db..0000000
--- a/examples/version.rs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,24 +0,0 @@
-fn main() -> Result<(), unpak::Error> {
-    // drag onto or open any pak with the example
-    let path = std::env::args().nth(1).unwrap_or_default();
-    for ver in unpak::Version::iter() {
-        match unpak::Pak::new(
-            std::io::BufReader::new(std::fs::OpenOptions::new().read(true).open(&path)?),
-            ver,
-            None,
-        ) {
-            Ok(pak) => {
-                println!("{}", pak.version());
-                break;
-            }
-            Err(unpak::Error::Version { version, .. }) => {
-                println!("{version}");
-                break;
-            }
-            _ => continue,
-        }
-    }
-    // so you can read the results
-    std::thread::sleep(std::time::Duration::from_secs(10));
-    Ok(())
-}
diff --git a/src/entry.rs b/src/entry.rs
index 74baa1d..9f34865 100644
--- a/src/entry.rs
+++ b/src/entry.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-use super::{Compression, ReadExt, Version};
+use super::{ext::ReadExt, Compression, Version};
 use byteorder::{ReadBytesExt, LE};
 use std::io;
 
diff --git a/src/error.rs b/src/error.rs
index 3821300..1ae8164 100644
--- a/src/error.rs
+++ b/src/error.rs
@@ -27,5 +27,5 @@ pub enum Error {
     #[error("pak is encrypted but no key was provided")]
     Encrypted,
     #[error("{0}")]
-    Other(String),
+    Other(&'static str),
 }
diff --git a/src/footer.rs b/src/footer.rs
index 7f6c54c..1e9e114 100644
--- a/src/footer.rs
+++ b/src/footer.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-use super::{Compression, ReadExt, Version};
+use super::{ext::ReadExt, Compression, Version};
 use byteorder::{ReadBytesExt, LE};
 use std::str::FromStr;
 
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 11af6c7..50679e6 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ mod ext;
 mod footer;
 mod pak;
 
-pub use {entry::*, error::*, ext::*, footer::*, pak::*};
+pub use {error::*, pak::*};
 
 pub const MAGIC: u32 = 0x5A6F12E1;
 
diff --git a/src/pak.rs b/src/pak.rs
index 699f278..dce36db 100644
--- a/src/pak.rs
+++ b/src/pak.rs
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ pub struct Pak<R: io::Read + io::Seek> {
     version: Version,
     mount_point: String,
     key: Option<aes::Aes256Dec>,
-    entries: hashbrown::HashMap<String, super::Entry>,
+    entries: hashbrown::HashMap<String, super::entry::Entry>,
     reader: R,
 }
 
@@ -16,11 +16,11 @@ impl<R: io::Read + io::Seek> Pak<R> {
         version: super::Version,
         key_hash: Option<&[u8]>,
     ) -> Result<Self, super::Error> {
-        use super::ReadExt;
+        use super::ext::ReadExt;
         use byteorder::{ReadBytesExt, LE};
         // read footer to get index, encryption & compression info
         reader.seek(io::SeekFrom::End(-version.size()))?;
-        let footer = super::Footer::new(&mut reader, version)?;
+        let footer = super::footer::Footer::new(&mut reader, version)?;
         // read index to get all the entry info
         reader.seek(io::SeekFrom::Start(footer.index_offset))?;
         let mut index = reader.read_len(footer.index_size as usize)?;
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ impl<R: io::Read + io::Seek> Pak<R> {
         for _ in 0..len {
             entries.insert(
                 index.read_string()?,
-                super::Entry::new(&mut index, version)?,
+                super::entry::Entry::new(&mut index, version)?,
             );
         }
         Ok(Self {