diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -7,13 +7,17 @@ Uses `prismarine-nbt` for serialization and deserialization, see https://github.
 ### Usage 
 
 via npx:
-`npx nbt-dump --help`
+```sh
+npx nbt-dump --help
+```
 
 via npm:
-`npm install -g nbt-dump`
-`nbt-dump --help`
+```
+npm install -g nbt-dump
+nbt-dump --help
+```
 
-```sh
+```
 usage, feel free to use natural language:
 Parse an NBT file to JSON: 
     nbt-dump <path-to-nbt-file> [out-json-file] [little|big|varint]
@@ -27,4 +31,27 @@ Write an JSON file to uncompressed NBT (defaults to big endian):
 
     nbt-dump write level.json to level.dat
     nbt-dump write level.json to level.dat as little
-```
\ No newline at end of file
+```
+
+### Example
+
+If you do not specify endianness, it will automatically be inferred.
+
+Parse to json, and back to nbt as big endian
+```sh
+$ nbt-dump level.dat level.json
+* Dumping NBT file "file.nbt" to "file.json" as JSON
+(as big endian)
+$ nbt-dump write level.json level.dat
+* Writing JSON from "file.json" to "file.nbt" as big endian
+written!
+```
+
+Write as little endian
+```sh
+$ nbt-dump level.dat level.json
+* Dumping NBT file "file.nbt" to "file.json" as JSON
+(as big endian)
+$ nbt-dump write level.json level.dat little
+* Writing JSON from "file.json" to "file.nbt" as little endian
+```