diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2050cc2..34f16e1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -11,3 +11,70 @@ syncing backups of an AWS S3 bucket (including old versions of objects) by
 making use of the bucket's [Amazon S3 Inventory][inv] files.
 
 [inv]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/storage-inventory.html
+
+**Warning:** This is an in-development program.  They may be bugs, and some
+planned features have not been implemented yet.
+
+
+Building & Running
+==================
+
+1. [Install Rust and Cargo](https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install).
+
+2. Clone this repository and `cd` into it.
+
+3. Run `cargo build --release` to build the binary.  The intermediate build
+   artifacts will be cached in `target/` in order to speed up subsequent
+   builds.
+
+4. Run with `cargo run --release -- <arguments ...>`.
+
+5. If necessary, the actual binary can be found in `target/debug/s3invsync` (or
+   `target/release/s3invsync` if built with `--release`).  It should run on any
+   system with the same OS and architecture as it was built on.
+
+
+Usage
+=====
+
+    cargo run --release -- [<options>] <inventory-base> <outdir>
+
+`s3invsync` downloads the contents of an S3 bucket, including old versions of
+objects, to the directory `<outdir>` using S3 Inventory files located at
+`<inventory-base>`.
+
+`<inventory-base>` must be of the form `s3://{bucket}/{prefix}/`, where
+`{bucket}` is the destination bucket on which the inventory files are stored
+and `{prefix}/` is the key prefix under which the [inventory manifest files][]
+are located in the bucket (i.e., appending a string of the form
+`YYYY-MM-DDTHH-MMZ/manifest.json` to `{prefix}/` should yield a key for a
+manifest file).
+
+[inventory manifest files]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/storage-inventory-location.html
+
+When downloading a given key from S3, the latest version (if not deleted) is
+stored at `{outdir}/{key}`, and the versionIds and etags of all latest object
+versions in a given directory are stored in `.s3invsync.versions.json` in that
+directory.  Each non-latest, non-deleted version of a given key is stored at
+`{outdir}/{key}.old.{versionId}.{etag}`.
+
+Options
+-------
+
+- `-d <DATE>`, `--date <DATE>` — Download objects from the inventory created at
+  the given date.
+
+  By default, the most recent inventory is downloaded.
+
+  The date must be in the format `YYYY-MM-DD` (in which case the latest
+  inventory for the given date is used) or in the format `YYYY-MM-DDTHH-MMZ`
+  (to specify a specific inventory).
+
+- `-I <INT>`, `--inventory-jobs <INT>` — Specify the maximum number of inventory
+  list files to download & process at once [default: 20]
+
+- `-O <INT>`, `--object-jobs <INT>` — Specify the maximum number of inventory
+  entries to download & process at once [default: 20]
+
+- `--path-filter <REGEX>` — Only download objects whose keys match the given
+  [regular expression](https://docs.rs/regex/latest/regex/#syntax)
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 0d1dd47..c84acbd 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -17,23 +17,47 @@ use std::path::PathBuf;
 use tracing::Level;
 use tracing_subscriber::{filter::Targets, fmt::time::OffsetTime, prelude::*};
 
+/// Back up an AWS S3 bucket using S3 Inventory files
+///
+/// See <https://github.com/dandi/s3invsync> for more information.
 #[derive(Clone, Debug, Parser)]
 #[command(version)]
 struct Arguments {
+    /// Download objects from the inventory created at the given date.
+    ///
+    /// By default, the most recent inventory is downloaded.
+    ///
+    /// The date must be in the format `YYYY-MM-DD` (in which case the latest
+    /// inventory for the given date is used) or in the format
+    /// `YYYY-MM-DDTHH-MMZ` (to specify a specific inventory).
     #[arg(short, long)]
     date: Option<DateMaybeHM>,
 
+    /// Set the maximum number of inventory list files to download & process at
+    /// once
     #[arg(short = 'I', long, default_value = "20")]
     inventory_jobs: NonZeroUsize,
 
+    /// Set the maximum number of inventory entries to download & process at
+    /// once
     #[arg(short = 'O', long, default_value = "20")]
     object_jobs: NonZeroUsize,
 
-    #[arg(long)]
+    /// Only download objects whose keys match the given regular expression
+    #[arg(long, value_name = "REGEX")]
     path_filter: Option<regex::Regex>,
 
+    /// The location of the manifest files for the S3 inventory to back up
+    ///
+    /// `<inventory-base>` must be of the form `s3://{bucket}/{prefix}/`, where
+    /// `{bucket}` is the destination bucket on which the inventory files are
+    /// stored and `{prefix}/` is the key prefix under which the inventory
+    /// manifest files are located in the bucket (i.e., appending a string of
+    /// the form `YYYY-MM-DDTHH-MMZ/manifest.json` to `{prefix}/` should yield
+    /// a key for a manifest file).
     inventory_base: S3Location,
 
+    /// Directory in which to download the S3 objects
     outdir: PathBuf,
 }