diff --git a/python/bin/mbtiles2pmtiles b/python/bin/mbtiles2pmtiles
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index e69de29..c4d2542
--- a/python/bin/mbtiles2pmtiles
+++ b/python/bin/mbtiles2pmtiles
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+print("mbtiles2pmtiles")
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/python/pmtiles/reader.py b/python/pmtiles/reader.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ed6147a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/pmtiles/reader.py
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+import json
+import mmap
+from contextlib import contextmanager
+
+@contextmanager
+def read(fname):
+    f = Reader(fname)
+    try:
+        yield f
+    finally:
+        f.close()
+
+class Reader:
+    def __init__(self,fname):
+        self.f = open(fname, "r+b")
+        self.mmap = mmap.mmap(self.f.fileno(), 0)
+        assert int.from_bytes(self.mmap[0:2],byteorder='little') == 0x4D50
+
+        self.root_dir = {}
+        first_entry_idx = 10+self.metadata_len
+        last_entry_idx = first_entry_idx + self.root_entries * 17
+        for i in range(first_entry_idx,last_entry_idx,17):
+            z = int.from_bytes(self.mmap[i:i+1],byteorder='little')
+            x = int.from_bytes(self.mmap[i+1:i+4],byteorder='little')
+            y = int.from_bytes(self.mmap[i+4:i+7],byteorder='little')
+            tile_off = int.from_bytes(self.mmap[i+7:i+13],byteorder='little')
+            tile_len = int.from_bytes(self.mmap[i+13:i+17],byteorder='little')
+            self.root_dir[(z,x,y)] = (tile_off,tile_len)
+
+    def close(self):
+        self.f.close()
+
+    @property
+    def metadata_len(self):
+        return int.from_bytes(self.mmap[4:8],byteorder='little')
+
+    @property
+    def metadata(self):
+        s = self.mmap[10:10+self.metadata_len]
+        return json.loads(s)
+
+    @property
+    def version(self):
+        return int.from_bytes(self.mmap[2:4],byteorder='little')
+
+    @property
+    def root_entries(self):
+        return int.from_bytes(self.mmap[8:10],byteorder='little')
+
+    def get(self,z,x,y):
+        val = self.root_dir.get((z,x,y))
+        if val:
+            return self.mmap[val[0]:val[0]+val[1]]
diff --git a/python/setup.py b/python/setup.py
index 1a3547d..17265e3 100644
--- a/python/setup.py
+++ b/python/setup.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ with open("README.md", "r") as fh:
 
 setuptools.setup(
     name="pmtiles",
-    version="0.0.1",
+    version="0.0.2",
     author="Brandon Liu",
     author_email="brandon@protomaps.com",
     description="Library and utilities to write and read PMTiles files - cloud-optimized archives of map tiles.",