diff --git a/README.md b/README.rst
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rename from README.md
rename to README.rst
index 911d24b..5892f77 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -1,33 +1,38 @@
-# spatialite
+spatialite
+==========
 
 Wrapper for standard Python module `sqlite3` which adds SpatiaLite support.
 
 
-## Requirement: mod_spatialite
+Requirement: mod_spatialite
+---------------------------
 
 This module will try to load SpatiaLite extension in SQLite and thus requires
 "mod_spatialite" being present.
 
-Ubuntu:
+Ubuntu::
 
     $ apt-get install libsqlite3-mod-spatialite
 
-macOS:
+macOS::
 
     $ brew install libspatialite
 
 
-## Install
+Install
+-------
+
+Using pip::
 
     $ pip install spatialite
 
+Usage
+-----
 
-## Usage
+.. code-block:: python
 
-```python
-import spatialite
+    import spatialite
 
 
-with spatialite.connect('sl_temp.db') as db:
-    print(db.execute('SELECT spatialite_version()').fetchone()[0])
-```
+    with spatialite.connect('sl_temp.db') as db:
+        print(db.execute('SELECT spatialite_version()').fetchone()[0])
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b1aaa81..b25bece 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 cwd = path.abspath(path.dirname(__file__))
 
 
-with open(path.join(cwd, 'README.md'), encoding='utf-8') as f:
+with open(path.join(cwd, 'README.rst'), encoding='utf-8') as f:
     long_description = f.read()
 
 setup(
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@
 
     description='Wrapper of sqlite3 module which adds SpatiaLite support.',
     long_description=long_description,
-    long_description_content_type='text/markdown',
     url='https://github.com/malexer/spatialite',
 
     author='Alex (Oleksii) Markov',