diff --git a/README b/README
index 0933467..537956e 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -124,10 +124,7 @@ Use
 ---
 
 the demo scripts are probably the best example of how to use this package.
-there is also a lot of documentation, generated with epydoc, in the doc/
-folder.  point your browser there.  seriously, do it.  mad props to
-epydoc, which actually motivated me to write more documentation than i
-ever would have before.
+there is also a lot of documentation, generated with Sphinx autodoc, in the doc/ folder.
 
 there are also unit tests here::
 
diff --git a/dev-requirements.txt b/dev-requirements.txt
index 88d94b7..e4dd942 100644
--- a/dev-requirements.txt
+++ b/dev-requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 # Older junk
 tox>=1.4,<1.5
-epydoc>=3.0,<3.1
 # For newer tasks like building Sphinx docs.
 # NOTE: Requires Python >=2.6
 invoke>=0.7.0