diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e11604496..588a7db6d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Compared to other Protocol Buffers implementations, `prost`
 
 First, add `prost` and its public dependencies to your `Cargo.toml`:
 
-```
+```ignore
 [dependencies]
 prost = "0.10"
 # Only necessary if using Protobuf well-known types:
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ a Rust module. For example, given the `package` specifier:
 
 [package]: https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/proto#packages
 
-```proto
+```proto,ignore
 package foo.bar;
 ```
 
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ All Rust types generated from the file will be in the `foo::bar` module.
 
 Given a simple message declaration:
 
-```proto
+```proto,ignore
 // Sample message.
 message Foo {
 }
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ message Foo {
 
 `prost` will generate the following Rust struct:
 
-```rust
+```rust,ignore
 /// Sample message.
 #[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Message)]
 pub struct Foo {
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ All `.proto` enumeration types convert to the Rust `i32` type. Additionally,
 each enumeration type gets a corresponding Rust `enum` type. For example, this
 `proto` enum:
 
-```proto
+```proto,ignore
 enum PhoneType {
   MOBILE = 0;
   HOME = 1;
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ enum PhoneType {
 
 gets this corresponding Rust enum [1]:
 
-```rust
+```rust,ignore
 pub enum PhoneType {
     Mobile = 0,
     Home = 1,
@@ -150,14 +150,14 @@ pub enum PhoneType {
 
 You can convert a `PhoneType` value to an `i32` by doing:
 
-```rust
+```rust,ignore
 PhoneType::Mobile as i32
 ```
 
 The `#[derive(::prost::Enumeration)]` annotation added to the generated
 `PhoneType` adds these associated functions to the type:
 
-```rust
+```rust,ignore
 impl PhoneType {
     pub fn is_valid(value: i32) -> bool { ... }
     pub fn from_i32(value: i32) -> Option<PhoneType> { ... }
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ impl PhoneType {
 so you can convert an `i32` to its corresponding `PhoneType` value by doing,
 for example:
 
-```rust
+```rust,ignore
 let phone_type = 2i32;
 
 match PhoneType::from_i32(phone_type) {
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ message will have 'accessor' methods to get/set the value of the field as the
 Rust enum type. For instance, this proto `PhoneNumber` message that has a field
 named `type` of type `PhoneType`:
 
-```proto
+```proto,ignore
 message PhoneNumber {
   string number = 1;
   PhoneType type = 2;
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ message PhoneNumber {
 
 will become the following Rust type [1] with methods `type` and `set_type`:
 
-```rust
+```rust,ignore
 pub struct PhoneNumber {
     pub number: String,
     pub r#type: i32, // the `r#` is needed because `type` is a Rust keyword
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ Oneof fields convert to a Rust enum. Protobuf `oneof`s types are not named, so
 defines the enum in a module under the struct. For example, a `proto3` message
 such as:
 
-```proto
+```proto,ignore
 message Foo {
   oneof widget {
     int32 quux = 1;
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ message Foo {
 
 generates the following Rust[1]:
 
-```rust
+```rust,ignore
 pub struct Foo {
     pub widget: Option<foo::Widget>,
 }
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ application's specific needs.
 
 Example `.proto` file:
 
-```proto
+```proto,ignore
 syntax = "proto3";
 package tutorial;
 
@@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ message AddressBook {
 
 and the generated Rust code (`tutorial.rs`):
 
-```rust
+```rust,ignore
 #[derive(Clone, PartialEq, ::prost::Message)]
 pub struct Person {
     #[prost(string, tag="1")]
@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ implement introspection capabilities requiring details from the original `.proto
 `prost` is compatible with `no_std` crates. To enable `no_std` support, disable
 the `std` features in `prost` and `prost-types`:
 
-```
+```ignore
 [dependencies]
 prost = { version = "0.6", default-features = false, features = ["prost-derive"] }
 # Only necessary if using Protobuf well-known types:
@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ prost-types = { version = "0.6", default-features = false }
 Additionally, configure `prost-build` to output `BTreeMap`s instead of `HashMap`s
 for all Protobuf `map` fields in your `build.rs`:
 
-```rust
+```rust,ignore
 let mut config = prost_build::Config::new();
 config.btree_map(&["."]);
 ```
@@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ sequentially occurring tag values by specifying the tag number to skip to with
 the `tag` attribute on the first field after the gap. The following fields will
 be tagged sequentially starting from the next number.
 
-```rust
+```rust,ignore
 use prost;
 use prost::{Enumeration, Message};
 
@@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ pub enum Gender {
   If the errors are about missing `autoreconf` or similar, you can probably fix
   them by running
 
-  ```
+  ```ignore
   brew install automake
   brew install libtool
   ```
diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 09deda858..acbf289bb 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 #![doc(html_root_url = "https://docs.rs/prost/0.10.1")]
 #![cfg_attr(not(feature = "std"), no_std)]
+#![doc = include_str!("../README.md")]
 
 // Re-export the alloc crate for use within derived code.
 #[doc(hidden)]
 pub extern crate alloc;
 
 // Re-export the bytes crate for use within derived code.
-#[doc(hidden)]
 pub use bytes;
 
 mod error;
diff --git a/tests/Cargo.toml b/tests/Cargo.toml
index 3645348a3..4f165a7a4 100644
--- a/tests/Cargo.toml
+++ b/tests/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ std = []
 
 [dependencies]
 anyhow = "1.0.1"
-bytes = "1"
+# bytes = "1"
 cfg-if = "1"
 prost = { path = ".." }
 prost-types = { path = "../prost-types" }
diff --git a/tests/src/lib.rs b/tests/src/lib.rs
index 930906572..a9818d682 100644
--- a/tests/src/lib.rs
+++ b/tests/src/lib.rs
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ pub mod default_string_escape {
 use alloc::vec::Vec;
 
 use anyhow::anyhow;
-use bytes::Buf;
+use prost::bytes::Buf;
 
 use prost::Message;
 
diff --git a/tests/src/message_encoding.rs b/tests/src/message_encoding.rs
index 63072d24d..9533f9f9c 100644
--- a/tests/src/message_encoding.rs
+++ b/tests/src/message_encoding.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-use bytes::Bytes;
 use prost::alloc::{borrow::ToOwned, string::String, vec, vec::Vec};
+use prost::bytes::Bytes;
 use prost::{Enumeration, Message, Oneof};
 
 use crate::check_message;