# About the GRA and manual

## The Great Reading Adventure

![Great Reading Adventure logo](../_static/great-reading-adventure-logo@1x.png)

The Great Reading Adventure was initially developed by the [Maricopa County Library District](http://www.mcldaz.org/) with support by the [Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records](http://www.azlibrary.gov/), a division of the Secretary of State, with federal funds from the [Institute of Museum and Library Services](http://www.imls.gov/).

The Great Reading Adventure source code is distributed under [The MIT License](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).

## Colophon

The content of this manual is part of the [open-source project on GitHub](https://github.com/MCLD/greatreadingadventure/tree/master/docs). It is generated using the following tools and technologies:

- [reStructuredText](http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html) and [CommonMark](https://commonmark.org/) (a fork of [Markdown](https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/)) text markup languages.
- [Sphinx](https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/) generates the manual from source files.
- [GitHub](https://github.com/) provides version control and source code management.
- [Read The Docs](https://readthedocs.org/) generates and hosts the online manual in [PDF](https://readthedocs.org/projects/great-reading-adventure/downloads/pdf/latest/) and [HTML](https://readthedocs.org/projects/great-reading-adventure/downloads/htmlzip/latest/) formats.