diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3ccd316..56529a3 100755
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -120,6 +120,8 @@ You pass in either `key` as the actual spreadsheet key, or just the full publish
 
 `callbackContext` sets the `this` for your callback. It's the tabletop object by default.
 
+`prettyColumnNames` can be true or false (default to false). It adds an object `pretty_columns` as a sibling to `column_names` which contains human-readable column names.
+
 ### Tabletop itself
 
 Once you've initialized a `tabletop` object you can access its good parts.
diff --git a/src/tabletop.js b/src/tabletop.js
index 6533df2..6e28497 100755
--- a/src/tabletop.js
+++ b/src/tabletop.js
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@
     this.singleton = !!options.singleton;
     this.simple_url = !!options.simple_url;
     this.callbackContext = options.callbackContext;
+    this.prettyColumnNames = !!options.prettyColumnNames;
     
     if(typeof(options.proxy) !== 'undefined') {
       // Remove trailing slash, it will break the app
@@ -367,6 +368,39 @@
       if(ttIndexOf(this.model_names, model.name) === -1) {
         this.model_names.push(model.name);
       }
+      if (this.prettyColumnNames) {
+        var cellurl = data.feed.link[3].href.replace('/feeds/list/', '/feeds/cells/').replace('https://spreadsheets.google.com', '');
+        this.requestData(cellurl, this.loadPrettyColumnNames);
+      } else {
+        this.sheetsToLoad--;
+        if(this.sheetsToLoad === 0)
+          this.doCallback();
+      }
+    },
+
+    /*
+     * Store column names as an object
+     * with keys of Google-formatted "columnName"
+     * and values of uman-readable "Column name"
+     */
+    loadPrettyColumnNames: function(data) {
+      var pretty_columns = {};
+
+      var column_names = this.models[data.feed.title.$t].column_names;
+
+      var i = 0;
+      var l = column_names.length;
+
+      for (; i < l; i++) {
+        if (typeof data.feed.entry[i].content.$t !== 'undefined') {
+          pretty_columns[column_names[i]] = data.feed.entry[i].content.$t;
+        } else {
+          pretty_columns[column_names[i]] = column_names[i];
+        }
+      }
+
+      this.models[data.feed.title.$t].pretty_columns = pretty_columns;
+
       this.sheetsToLoad--;
       if(this.sheetsToLoad === 0)
         this.doCallback();