diff --git a/meanas/__init__.py b/meanas/__init__.py
index 76388dc..8d30d47 100644
--- a/meanas/__init__.py
+++ b/meanas/__init__.py
@@ -1,44 +1,7 @@
 """
 Electromagnetic simulation tools
 
-This package is intended for building simulation inputs, analyzing
-simulation outputs, and running short simulations on unspecialized hardware.
-It is designed to provide tooling and a baseline for other, high-performance
-purpose- and hardware-specific solvers.
-
-
-**Contents**
-- Finite difference frequency domain (FDFD)
-    * Library of sparse matrices for representing the electromagnetic wave
-    equation in 3D, as well as auxiliary matrices for conversion between fields
-    * Waveguide mode operators
-    * Waveguide mode eigensolver
-    * Stretched-coordinate PML boundaries (SCPML)
-    * Functional versions of most operators
-    * Anisotropic media (limited to diagonal elements eps_xx, eps_yy, eps_zz, mu_xx, ...)
-    * Arbitrary distributions of perfect electric and magnetic conductors (PEC / PMC)
-- Finite difference time domain (FDTD)
-    * Basic Maxwell time-steps
-    * Poynting vector and energy calculation
-    * Convolutional PMLs
-
-This package does *not* provide a fast matrix solver, though by default
-```meanas.fdfd.solvers.generic(...)``` will call
-```scipy.sparse.linalg.qmr(...)``` to perform a solve.
-For 2D FDFD problems this should be fine; likewise, the waveguide mode
-solver uses scipy's eigenvalue solver, with reasonable results.
-
-For solving large (or 3D) FDFD problems, I recommend a GPU-based iterative
-solver, such as [opencl_fdfd](https://mpxd.net/code/jan/opencl_fdfd) or
-those included in [MAGMA](http://icl.cs.utk.edu/magma/index.html)). Your
-solver will need the ability to solve complex symmetric (non-Hermitian)
-linear systems, ideally with double precision.
-
-
-Dependencies:
-- numpy
-- scipy
-
+See the readme or `import meanas; help(meanas)` for more info.
 """
 
 import pathlib
@@ -50,3 +13,7 @@ __author__ = 'Jan Petykiewicz'
 
 with open(pathlib.Path(__file__).parent / 'VERSION', 'r') as f:
     __version__ = f.read().strip()
+
+with open(pathlib.Path(__file__).parent.parent / 'README.md', 'r') as f:
+    __doc__ = f.read()
+