diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+book
diff --git a/book.toml b/book.toml
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+[book]
+authors = ["Joshua Ramon Enslin"]
+language = "en"
+multilingual = false
+src = "src"
+title = "museum-digital:handbook"
+description = "English language handbook for museum-digital"
+
+[preprocessor.index]
+
+[preprocessor.links]
+
+[output.html.print]
+enable = true
+
+[output.html.fold]
+enable = false
+level = 0
+
+[output.linkcheck]
+# Should we check links on the internet? Enabling this option adds a
+# non-negligible performance impact
+follow-web-links = true
+
+# Are we allowed to link to files outside of the book's root directory? This
+# may help prevent linking to sensitive files (e.g. "../../../../etc/shadow")
+traverse-parent-directories = true
+
+# If necessary, you can exclude one or more links from being checked with a
+# list of regular expressions. The regex will be applied to the link href (i.e.
+# the `./index.html` in `[some page](./index.html)`) so it can be used to
+# ignore both web and filesystem links.
+#
+# Hint: you can use TOML's raw strings (single quote) to avoid needing to
+# escape things twice.
+exclude = [ 'google\.com|php\.net' ]
+
+# The User-Agent to use when sending web requests
+# user-agent = "mdbook-linkcheck-0.4.0"
+user-agent = "mdbook-linkcheck-0.4.0"
+
+# The number of seconds a cached result is valid for (12 hrs by default)
+cache-timeout = 43200
+
+# How should warnings be treated?
+#
+# - "warn" will emit warning messages
+# - "error" treats all warnings as errors, failing the linkcheck
+# - "ignore" will ignore warnings, suppressing diagnostic messages and allowing
+#   the linkcheck to continuing
+warning-policy = "warn"
diff --git a/src/SUMMARY.md b/src/SUMMARY.md
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+# Summary
+
+- [Chapter 1](./chapter_1.md)
diff --git a/src/chapter_1.md b/src/chapter_1.md
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+# Chapter 1