diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
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--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2017-05-17  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+	README: Don't ask people to read a TeXinfo file.
+	Reported by Tim Rühsen <tim.ruehsen@gmx.de>.
+	* README: Tell people how to read the HTML formatted manual.
+
 2017-05-16  Tim Rühsen  <tim.ruehsen@gmx.de>
 
 	parse-datetime: Fix memleak
diff --git a/README b/README
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@@ -1 +1,9 @@
-Please see doc/gnulib-readme.texi for basic information about Gnulib.
+Please create and read the docs with
+
+  $ cd doc
+  $ make gnulib.html
+  $ xdg-open gnulib.html
+
+or read the online manual at
+
+  https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/manual/gnulib.html