diff --git a/README.txt b/README.rst
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--- a/README.txt
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 Matthew Brett's fork of BibStuff
 ################################
 
-This is my own fork of bibstuff.  You'll find the original source from the
-links below.
+This is my own fork of ``bibstuff``. The original project can now be found
+at `github.com/dschwilk/bibstuff <https://github.com/dschwilk/bibstuff>`_.
 
 The fork was mainly to add the sphinx ``bibref`` extension.
 
@@ -45,12 +45,12 @@ Simply type 'python setup.py install' in the unpacked directory.
 
 Command-line tools (scripts)
 ============================
- 
+
 These tools are installed in you python scripts directory or they can
 be run directly from where they were unpacked. Each of these tools has
 a command line interface and provides the -h option to describe usage.
 
-   * biblabel.py 
+   * biblabel.py
       Creates unique keys for entries bibtex database(s).  default keys
       look like Schwilk+Isaac:2006 or Smith+Johnson+etal:1999 Command
       line options allow you to change the default behavior.
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ a command line interface and provides the -h option to describe usage.
       extracts reference keys from the bbl file.  This is useful for
       creating a bibtex database limited to those references which
       occur only in a single latex file.
-      
+
       example: reflist.py my_doc.bbl | bibsearch.py -l my_db.bib > new_db.bib
 
 Modules
diff --git a/bibstuff/__init__.py b/bibstuff/__init__.py
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--- a/bibstuff/__init__.py
+++ b/bibstuff/__init__.py
@@ -8,20 +8,19 @@
 - utility and classes for managing citations in text files
 - utilities for searching and labeling BibTeX files
 
-For more detail, see `README.txt`_.
+For more detail, see `README.rst`_.
 
 Bibstuff is free software distributed under the `MIT license`_.
 For more detail, see `license.txt`_.
 
 Bibstuff is pure Python_ and in that sense will run on any platform.
 
-.. _`README.txt`: ./README.txt
+.. _`README.rst`: ./README.rst
 .. _`MIT license`: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
 .. _license.txt: ./license.txt
-.. _Python: http://www.python.org 
+.. _Python: http://www.python.org
 """
 
 __docformat__ = "restructuredtext en"
 
 __version__ =  '1.0'
-
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