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-
-# rattail-quickbooks
-
-Rattail is a retail software framework, released under the GNU General
-Public License.
-
-This package contains software interfaces for
-[Quickbooks](https://quickbooks.intuit.com/).
-
-Please see the [Rattail Project](https://rattailproject.org/) for more
-information.
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
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+
+rattail-quickbooks
+==================
+
+Rattail is a retail software framework, released under the GNU General
+Public License.
+
+This package contains software interfaces for `Quickbooks`_.
+
+.. _`Quickbooks`: https://quickbooks.intuit.com/
+
+Please see the `Rattail Project`_ for more information.
+
+.. _`Rattail Project`: https://rattailproject.org/
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
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@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ build-backend = "hatchling.build"
 name = "rattail-quickbooks"
 version = "0.2.0"
 description = "Rattail integration package for Quickbooks"
-readme = "README.md"
+readme = "README.rst"
 authors = [{name = "Lance Edgar", email = "lance@edbob.org"}]
 license = {text = "GNU GPL v3+"}
 classifiers = [