diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index f5ef2ca..78463d1 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ ENV LD_LIBRARY_PATH "/opt/fastjet/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
 ENV ROOT_INCLUDE_PATH "/opt/fastjet/include"
 
 # Customise the ROOTbook
-RUN pip install --upgrade pip
+RUN pip install --upgrade --force-reinstall pip==9.0.3
 RUN pip install metakernel
 RUN mkdir -p                                 $HOME/.ipython/kernels
 RUN cp -r $ROOTSYS/etc/notebook/kernels/root $HOME/.ipython/kernels
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 781d69e..0000000
--- a/README.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-# [ROOT](http://root.cern.ch) is ...
-... A modular scientific software framework. It provides all the functionalities needed to deal with big data processing, statistical analysis, visualisation and storage. It is mainly written in C++ but well integrated with other languages such as Python and R. [Read More](https://root.cern.ch/about-root) ...
-
-# ROOTbooks for [SWAN](https://swan.web.cern.ch) and Binder
-This repository contains a set of files to use [ROOT](http://root.cern.ch)books in mybinder.org:
-* Dockerfile to customise Binder for [ROOT](http://root.cern.ch)
-* [ROOT](http://root.cern.ch)book example files
-
-[Enric Tejedor](https://github.com/etejedor), [Danilo Piparo](https://github.com/dpiparo) (2015-2017)
-
-<a href="https://cern.ch/swanserver/cgi-bin/go/?projurl=https://github.com/cernphsft/rootbinder.git" target="_blank"><img alt="" src="http://swanserver.web.cern.ch/swanserver/images/badge_swan_white_150.png" />
-
-[![Binder](http://mybinder.org/badge.svg)](http://mybinder.org/repo/cernphsft/rootbinder)