diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3f82f63..4a90edd 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
 with open("README.md", "r", encoding="utf-8") as fh:
-    long_description = fh.read()
+    long_description = '''A gravitational event database that queries and locally saves event strain samples, detector PSDs and posterior samples.'''
 
 description = '''A gravitational event database that queries and locally saves event strain samples, 
 detector PSDs and posterior samples - all in one place'''