diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d02af57..7a2255f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ Every page on the site is a `.md` file in the root of this repository. There is
 ## How a page is served
 
 - `/` is `index.md`. `/manifesto` and `/manifesto.md` are both `manifesto.md`. A missing page is `404.md` with a 404 status.
-- A browser (anything that sends `Accept: text/html`) gets `text/plain`, so the source displays inline instead of downloading. Everything else gets `text/markdown`.
+- A browser (anything that sends `Accept: text/html`) gets the verbatim source in a `<pre>`, with Markdown links and bare URLs made clickable, because plain text in a browser has no links. Nothing is rendered. Everything else gets raw `text/markdown`.
+- `/<page>.html` redirects to the readm3.com render of that page.
 - Every response carries `Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *`, so a reader on any origin can fetch a page. That is what the **html** link at the bottom of each page relies on: it hands the file to [readm3.com](https://readm3.com), which renders it in the browser.
 - Only `.md` files are served. Dotfiles, the server, this README's neighbours in `.github`: none of it is reachable.
 - `www.` redirects to the apex.
diff --git a/index.md b/index.md
index dac4c32..4bde117 100644
--- a/index.md
+++ b/index.md
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ More documents land here as they get written.
 
 Every page is a Markdown file and nothing else. No HTML, no JavaScript, no build step.
 
-Read it here as text, fetch it with curl, pipe it through readm3, or click **html** at the bottom of any page to render it with readm3.com.
+In a browser you see the source as written, links included. Fetch it with curl, pipe it through readm3, or click **html** at the bottom of any page to render it with readm3.com. Swapping `.md` for `.html` in the address does the same.
 
     curl https://fleetsysops.com/manifesto.md
     curl -s https://fleetsysops.com/manifesto.md | npx @profullstack/readm3 --print
diff --git a/server.test.ts b/server.test.ts
index 082c675..94186b1 100644
--- a/server.test.ts
+++ b/server.test.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { describe, expect, test } from "bun:test";
 import { readdirSync, readFileSync, statSync } from "node:fs";
 import { join, relative } from "node:path";
-import { handle, resolve, root, SITE } from "./server.ts";
+import { browserPage, handle, resolve, root, SITE } from "./server.ts";
 
 const get = (path: string, init: RequestInit & { host?: string } = {}) => {
   const { host, ...rest } = init;
@@ -20,11 +20,30 @@ describe("the Markdown server", () => {
     expect(await response.text()).toStartWith("# Fleet SysOps");
   });
 
-  test("gives a browser text/plain so the source displays instead of downloading", async () => {
+  test("gives a browser the verbatim source in a <pre> with the links clickable", async () => {
     const response = get("/manifesto.md", { headers: { accept: "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,*/*;q=0.8" } });
     expect(response.status).toBe(200);
-    expect(response.headers.get("content-type")).toBe("text/plain; charset=utf-8");
-    expect(await response.text()).toContain("We test in prod.");
+    expect(response.headers.get("content-type")).toBe("text/html; charset=utf-8");
+    const html = await response.text();
+    expect(html).toContain("<pre>");
+    expect(html).toContain("- We test in prod.");
+    expect(html).toContain('<a href="https://readm3.com/viewer?url=https://fleetsysops.com/manifesto.md">[html](https://readm3.com/viewer?url=https://fleetsysops.com/manifesto.md)</a>');
+    expect(html).toContain("<title>manifesto.md · fleetsysops.com</title>");
+  });
+
+  test("escapes the source in the browser view and links bare URLs", () => {
+    const html = browserPage("# T\n\n<script>alert(1)</script> see https://example.com/a?b=1 and [x](/y.md).", "t.md");
+    expect(html).not.toContain("<script>");
+    expect(html).toContain("&lt;script&gt;alert(1)&lt;/script&gt;");
+    expect(html).toContain('<a href="https://example.com/a?b=1">https://example.com/a?b=1</a>');
+    expect(html).toContain('<a href="/y.md">[x](/y.md)</a>');
+  });
+
+  test("redirects /<page>.html to the readm3.com render, and 404s an unknown one", async () => {
+    const response = get("/manifesto.html");
+    expect(response.status).toBe(302);
+    expect(response.headers.get("location")).toBe("https://readm3.com/viewer?url=https://fleetsysops.com/manifesto.md");
+    expect(get("/nope.html").status).toBe(404);
   });
 
   test("resolves an extensionless path to the .md file and strips a trailing slash", async () => {
@@ -45,6 +64,9 @@ describe("the Markdown server", () => {
     expect(response.status).toBe(404);
     expect(response.headers.get("content-type")).toBe("text/markdown; charset=utf-8");
     expect(await response.text()).toStartWith("# Not found");
+    const browser = get("/nope", { headers: { accept: "text/html" } });
+    expect(browser.status).toBe(404);
+    expect(await browser.text()).toContain("# Not found");
   });
 
   test("never serves anything that is not a Markdown file", () => {
diff --git a/server.ts b/server.ts
index bbd3d70..aee5b6d 100644
--- a/server.ts
+++ b/server.ts
@@ -3,15 +3,17 @@
  *
  * Every document is a `.md` file in this directory, served as text. `/` is `index.md`,
  * `/manifesto` is `manifesto.md`, and a missing page is `404.md` with a 404 status.
- * Browsers get `text/plain` so they show the source instead of offering a download;
- * everything else (curl, agents, readm3.com fetching a page to render it) gets
- * `text/markdown`. Every response allows any origin, which is what lets the `html`
- * link at the bottom of each page hand the file to readm3.com.
+ * Browsers get the exact source in a `<pre>`, with every link clickable, because a
+ * browser shows plain text as dead characters and the `html` link at the bottom of
+ * each page has to be a link. Everything else (curl, agents, readm3.com fetching a
+ * page to render it) gets raw `text/markdown`. `/<page>.html` redirects to the
+ * readm3.com render. Every response allows any origin, which is what lets readm3.com
+ * fetch the file.
  *
  * Nothing that is not a Markdown file is ever served.
  */
 import { existsSync, readFileSync, statSync } from "node:fs";
-import { join, normalize, sep } from "node:path";
+import { join, normalize, relative, sep } from "node:path";
 
 export const root = import.meta.dir;
 export const SITE = (process.env.SITE_URL ?? "https://fleetsysops.com").replace(/\/$/, "");
@@ -34,10 +36,44 @@ export function resolve(pathname: string): string | null {
   return null;
 }
 
-/** Browsers announce text/html; they get plain text so the Markdown displays inline. */
+/** A browser announces text/html; everything else is a program that wants the Markdown. */
+function isBrowser(request: Request): boolean {
+  return (request.headers.get("accept") ?? "").includes("text/html");
+}
+
 function contentType(request: Request): string {
-  const accept = request.headers.get("accept") ?? "";
-  return accept.includes("text/html") ? "text/plain; charset=utf-8" : "text/markdown; charset=utf-8";
+  return isBrowser(request) ? "text/html; charset=utf-8" : "text/markdown; charset=utf-8";
+}
+
+const escape = (text: string) => text.replace(/[&<>"']/g, (c) => ({ "&": "&amp;", "<": "&lt;", ">": "&gt;", '"': "&quot;", "'": "&#39;" })[c]!);
+
+/**
+ * The browser view: the Markdown source, verbatim, in a <pre>, with Markdown links and
+ * bare URLs wrapped in anchors so they can be clicked. Nothing is rendered; a reader
+ * who wants rendering follows the html link.
+ */
+export function browserPage(source: string, name: string): string {
+  const link = /\[([^\]\n]+)\]\(((?:https?:\/\/|\/)[^\s)]+)\)|https?:\/\/[^\s<>)"']+/g;
+  let html = "";
+  let last = 0;
+  for (const match of source.matchAll(link)) {
+    html += escape(source.slice(last, match.index));
+    const href = match[2] ?? match[0];
+    html += `<a href="${escape(href)}">${escape(match[0])}</a>`;
+    last = match.index + match[0].length;
+  }
+  html += escape(source.slice(last));
+  return `<!doctype html>
+<html lang="en"><head><meta charset="utf-8"><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1">
+<title>${escape(name)} · fleetsysops.com</title>
+<style>
+:root{color-scheme:light dark}
+body{margin:0;background:#fff;color:#111}
+pre{margin:0;padding:24px 16px;white-space:pre-wrap;overflow-wrap:anywhere;font:15px/1.6 ui-monospace,SFMono-Regular,Menlo,Consolas,monospace;max-width:80ch}
+a{color:inherit;text-decoration:underline;text-underline-offset:3px}
+@media (prefers-color-scheme:dark){body{background:#0d1117;color:#e6edf3}}
+</style></head><body><pre>${html}</pre></body></html>
+`;
 }
 
 function headers(request: Request, extra: Record<string, string> = {}): Headers {
@@ -68,14 +104,20 @@ export function handle(request: Request): Response {
     return Response.redirect(`${url.origin}${url.pathname.replace(/\/+$/, "")}${url.search}`, 308);
   }
 
-  const file = resolve(url.pathname);
-  if (file) {
-    const body = request.method === "HEAD" ? null : readFileSync(file);
-    return new Response(body, { status: 200, headers: headers(request) });
+  if (url.pathname.endsWith(".html")) {
+    const page = url.pathname.slice(0, -5);
+    if (resolve(`${page}.md`)) return Response.redirect(`https://readm3.com/viewer?url=${SITE}${page}.md`, 302);
   }
+
+  const file = resolve(url.pathname);
+  if (file) return respond(request, readFileSync(file, "utf8"), 200, file);
   const missing = join(root, "404.md");
-  const body = existsSync(missing) ? readFileSync(missing) : "not found\n";
-  return new Response(request.method === "HEAD" ? null : body, { status: 404, headers: headers(request, { "cache-control": "no-store" }) });
+  return respond(request, existsSync(missing) ? readFileSync(missing, "utf8") : "not found\n", 404, missing, { "cache-control": "no-store" });
+}
+
+function respond(request: Request, source: string, status: number, file: string, extra: Record<string, string> = {}): Response {
+  const body = isBrowser(request) ? browserPage(source, relative(root, file)) : source;
+  return new Response(request.method === "HEAD" ? null : body, { status, headers: headers(request, extra) });
 }
 
 if (import.meta.main) {