diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index d37dde1..bdc037d 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -27,3 +27,6 @@ gcc-arm-none-eabi/gcc_arm_none_eabi/toolchain/
 
 # downloaded git-lfs
 git-lfs/git_lfs/bin/
+
+# downloaded mdbook
+mdbook/mdbook/bin/
diff --git a/mdbook/build.sh b/mdbook/build.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..a90414d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mdbook/build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+set -e
+
+DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" >/dev/null && pwd)"
+cd "$DIR"
+
+VERSION="0.5.2"
+INSTALL_DIR="$DIR/mdbook/bin"
+VERSION_FILE="$INSTALL_DIR/.version"
+
+# Skip if already at correct version
+if [ -f "$VERSION_FILE" ] && [ "$(cat "$VERSION_FILE")" = "$VERSION" ]; then
+  echo "mdbook $VERSION already present, skipping."
+  exit 0
+fi
+
+OS="$(uname -s)"
+ARCH="$(uname -m)"
+
+case "${OS}-${ARCH}" in
+  Linux-x86_64)   TARGET="x86_64-unknown-linux-musl" ;;
+  Linux-aarch64)  TARGET="aarch64-unknown-linux-musl" ;;
+  Darwin-arm64)   TARGET="aarch64-apple-darwin" ;;
+  *)
+    echo "Unsupported platform: ${OS}-${ARCH}" >&2
+    exit 1
+    ;;
+esac
+
+FILENAME="mdbook-v${VERSION}-${TARGET}.tar.gz"
+URL="https://github.com/rust-lang/mdBook/releases/download/v${VERSION}/${FILENAME}"
+
+echo "Downloading $FILENAME ..."
+curl -fSL -o "$FILENAME" "$URL"
+
+echo "Extracting ..."
+mkdir -p "$INSTALL_DIR"
+tar -xzf "$FILENAME" -C "$INSTALL_DIR" mdbook
+
+chmod +x "$INSTALL_DIR/mdbook"
+
+rm -f "$FILENAME"
+echo "$VERSION" > "$VERSION_FILE"
+
+echo "Installed mdbook to $INSTALL_DIR"
+du -sh "$INSTALL_DIR"
diff --git a/mdbook/mdbook/__init__.py b/mdbook/mdbook/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a118955
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mdbook/mdbook/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+import os
+import sys
+
+BIN_DIR = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "bin")
+
+
+def _run():
+  binary = os.path.join(BIN_DIR, "mdbook")
+  os.execvp(binary, [binary] + sys.argv[1:])
+
+
+def smoketest():
+  import subprocess
+  binary = os.path.join(BIN_DIR, "mdbook")
+  subprocess.run([binary, "--version"], check=True)
diff --git a/mdbook/pyproject.toml b/mdbook/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0cb35c9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mdbook/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools>=64", "wheel"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+[project]
+name = "mdbook"
+version = "0.5.2"
+description = "mdBook command-line tool for creating books from Markdown"
+requires-python = ">=3.8"
+
+[project.scripts]
+mdbook = "mdbook:_run"
+
+[tool.setuptools.packages.find]
+include = ["mdbook*"]
+
+[tool.setuptools.package-data]
+mdbook = ["bin/**/*"]
diff --git a/mdbook/setup.py b/mdbook/setup.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..35fde4f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mdbook/setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+import os
+import platform
+import subprocess
+
+from setuptools.command.build_py import build_py
+
+try:
+  from wheel.bdist_wheel import bdist_wheel
+except ImportError:
+  bdist_wheel = None
+
+
+class BuildMdbook(build_py):
+  """Run build.sh to download mdbook before collecting package data."""
+
+  def run(self):
+    pkg_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
+    build_script = os.path.join(pkg_dir, "build.sh")
+    subprocess.check_call(["bash", build_script], cwd=pkg_dir)
+
+    super().run()
+
+
+cmdclass = {"build_py": BuildMdbook}
+
+if bdist_wheel is not None:
+
+  class PlatformWheel(bdist_wheel):
+    """Produce a platform-specific, Python-version-agnostic wheel."""
+
+    def finalize_options(self):
+      super().finalize_options()
+      self.root_is_pure = False
+
+    def get_tag(self):
+      system = platform.system()
+      machine = platform.machine()
+
+      if system == "Linux":
+        plat = f"linux_{machine}"
+      elif system == "Darwin":
+        plat = "macosx_11_0_arm64"
+      else:
+        plat = f"{system.lower()}_{machine}"
+
+      return "py3", "none", plat
+
+  cmdclass["bdist_wheel"] = PlatformWheel
+
+
+def setup():
+  from setuptools import setup as _setup
+
+  _setup(cmdclass=cmdclass)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+  setup()
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index d65860c..2380ca6 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ members = [
   "libusb",
   "libjpeg",
   "libyuv",
+  "mdbook",
   "nanosvg",
   "ncurses",
   "qt5",