diff --git a/driver/Cargo.toml b/driver/Cargo.toml
index c2f1c90c6..36247bd9e 100644
--- a/driver/Cargo.toml
+++ b/driver/Cargo.toml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ description = "The official MongoDB driver for Rust"
 keywords = ["mongo", "mongodb", "database", "bson", "nosql"]
 categories = ["asynchronous", "database", "web-programming"]
 homepage = "https://www.mongodb.com/docs/drivers/rust/"
-readme = "../README.md"
+readme = "README.md"
 name = "mongodb"
 version = "3.4.0"
 
diff --git a/driver/README.md b/driver/README.md
new file mode 120000
index 000000000..32d46ee88
--- /dev/null
+++ b/driver/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../README.md
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/driver/src/lib.rs b/driver/src/lib.rs
index d8aed805c..b919b1724 100644
--- a/driver/src/lib.rs
+++ b/driver/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#![doc = include_str!("../../README.md")]
+#![doc = include_str!("../README.md")]
 #![warn(
     missing_docs,
     rustdoc::missing_crate_level_docs,