diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -317,6 +317,41 @@ async function main() {
 main();
 ```
 
+### Open.custom(source, [options])
+This function can be used to provide a custom source implementation. The source parameter expects a `stream` and a `size` function to be implemented. The size function should return a `Promise` that resolves the total size of the file. The stream function should return a `Readable` stream according to the supplied offset and length parameters.
+
+Example:
+
+```js
+// Custom source implementation for reading a zip file from Google Cloud Storage
+const { Storage } = require('@google-cloud/storage');
+
+async function main() {
+  const storage = new Storage();
+  const bucket = storage.bucket('my-bucket');
+  const zipFile = bucket.file('my-zip-file.zip');
+  
+  const customSource = {
+    stream: function(offset, length) {
+      return zipFile.createReadStream({
+        start: offset,
+        end: length && offset + length
+      })
+    },
+    size: async function() {
+      const objMetadata = (await zipFile.getMetadata())[0];
+      return objMetadata.size;
+    }
+  };
+
+  const directory = await unzipper.Open.custom(customSource);
+  console.log('directory', directory);
+  // ...
+}
+
+main();
+```
+
 ### Open.[method].extract()
 
 The directory object returned from `Open.[method]` provides an `extract` method which extracts all the files to a specified `path`, with an optional `concurrency` (default: 1).
diff --git a/lib/Open/index.js b/lib/Open/index.js
index f6c4068..fd89746 100644
--- a/lib/Open/index.js
+++ b/lib/Open/index.js
@@ -92,6 +92,10 @@ module.exports = {
       }
     };
 
+    return directory(source, options);
+  },
+
+  custom: function(source, options) {
     return directory(source, options);
   }
 };
diff --git a/test/openCustom.js b/test/openCustom.js
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+++ b/test/openCustom.js
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+'use strict';
+
+var test = require('tap').test;
+var fs = require('fs');
+var path = require('path');
+var unzip = require('../unzip');
+var Promise = require('bluebird');
+
+test("get content of a single file entry out of a zip", function (t) {
+  var archive = path.join(__dirname, '../testData/compressed-standard/archive.zip');
+
+  var customSource = {
+    stream: function(offset,length) {
+      return fs.createReadStream(archive, {start: offset, end: length && offset+length});
+    },
+    size: function() {
+      return new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
+        fs.stat(archive, function(err, d) {
+          if (err)
+            reject(err);
+          else
+            resolve(d.size);
+        });
+      });
+    }
+  };
+
+  return unzip.Open.custom(customSource)
+    .then(function(d) {
+      var file = d.files.filter(function(file) {
+        return file.path == 'file.txt';
+      })[0];
+
+      return file.buffer()
+        .then(function(str) {
+          var fileStr = fs.readFileSync(path.join(__dirname, '../testData/compressed-standard/inflated/file.txt'), 'utf8');
+          t.equal(str.toString(), fileStr);
+          t.end();
+        });
+    });
+});
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