diff --git a/README b/README
deleted file mode 100644
index e3d40b3..0000000
--- a/README
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,62 +0,0 @@
-This code is under the Apache License 2.0.  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-
-This is a python port of a ruby port of arc90's readability project
-
-http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
-
-In few words,
-Given a html document, it pulls out the main body text and cleans it up.
-It also can clean up title based on latest readability.js code.
-
-Based on:
- - Latest readability.js ( https://github.com/MHordecki/readability-redux/blob/master/readability/readability.js )
- - Ruby port by starrhorne and iterationlabs
- - Python port by gfxmonk ( https://github.com/gfxmonk/python-readability , based on BeautifulSoup )
- - Decruft effort to move to lxml ( http://www.minvolai.com/blog/decruft-arc90s-readability-in-python/ )
- - "BR to P" fix from readability.js which improves quality for smaller texts.
- - Github users contributions.
-
-Installation::
-
-    easy_install readability-lxml
-    or
-    pip install readability-lxml
-
-Usage::
-
-    from readability.readability import Document
-    import urllib
-    html = urllib.urlopen(url).read()
-    readable_article = Document(html).summary()
-    readable_title = Document(html).short_title()
-
-Command-line usage::
-
-    python -m readability.readability -u http://pypi.python.org/pypi/readability-lxml
-
-To open resulting page in browser::
-
-    python -m readability.readability -b -u http://pypi.python.org/pypi/readability-lxml
-
-Using positive/negative keywords example::
-
-    python -m readability.readability -p intro -n newsindex,homepage-box,news-section -u http://python.org
-
-
-Document() kwarg options:
-
- - attributes:
- - debug: output debug messages
- - min_text_length:
- - retry_length:
- - url: will allow adjusting links to be absolute
- - positive_keywords: the list of positive search patterns in classes and ids, for example: ["news-item", "block"]
- - negative_keywords: the list of negative search patterns in classes and ids, for example: ["mysidebar", "related", "ads"]
-
-
-Updates
-
- - 0.3 Added Document.encoding, positive_keywords and negative_keywords
- - 0.4 Added Videos loading and allowed more images per paragraph
- - 0.5 Preparing a release to support Python versions 2.6, 2.7, 3.3 and 3.4
- - 0.6 Finally a release which supports Python versions 2.6, 2.7, 3.3 and 3.4
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a2a1c8c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+python-readability
+==================
+
+Given a html document, it pulls out the main body text and cleans it up.
+
+This is a python port of a ruby port of `arc90's readability
+project <http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/>`__.
+
+Installation
+------------
+
+It's easy using ``pip``, just run:
+
+::
+
+    $ pip install readability-lxml
+
+Usage
+-----
+
+::
+
+    >> import requests
+    >> from readability import Document
+    >>
+    >> response = requests.get('http://example.com')
+    >> doc = Document(response.text)
+    >> doc.title()
+    >> 'Example Domain'
+
+Change Log
+----------
+
+-  0.3 Added Document.encoding, positive\_keywords and
+   negative\_keywords
+-  0.4 Added Videos loading and allowed more images per paragraph
+-  0.5 Preparing a release to support Python versions 2.6, 2.7, 3.3 and
+   3.4
+-  0.6 Finally a release which supports Python versions 2.6, 2.7, 3.3
+   and 3.4
+
+Licensing
+=========
+
+This code is under `the Apache License
+2.0 <http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0>`__ license.
+
+Thanks to
+---------
+
+-  Latest
+   `readability.js <https://github.com/MHordecki/readability-redux/blob/master/readability/readability.js>`__
+-  Ruby port by starrhorne and iterationlabs
+-  `Python port <https://github.com/gfxmonk/python-readability>`__ by
+   gfxmonk
+-  `Decruft
+   effort <http://www.minvolai.com/blog/decruft-arc90s-readability-in-python/>`__
+   to move to lxml
+-  "BR to P" fix from readability.js which improves quality for smaller
+   texts
+-  Github users contributions.
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 371dac9..18a4fae 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ setup(
     author_email="burchik@gmail.com",
     description="fast html to text parser (article readability tool) with python3 support",
     test_suite = "tests.test_article_only",
-    long_description=open("README").read(),
+    long_description=open("README.rst").read(),
     license="Apache License 2.0",
     url="http://github.com/buriy/python-readability",
     packages=['readability', 'readability.compat'],