For what it's worth, if you want the best performance out of Serde you have to use from_str or from_slice, regardless of if you pass a BufRead to it.
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As a digital preservation aside, folks may be interested in OCFL[1], which is a preservation focused storage layout specification that had its 1.0 release last year.
[1] https://ocfl.io/