diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index abb0c9c..be4c48b 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 Package: readODS
 Type: Package
 Title: Read and Write ODS Files
-Version: 2.2.0.999
+Version: 2.2.0.9999
 Authors@R: 
     c(person("Gerrit-Jan", "Schutten", role = c("aut"), email = "phonixor@gmail.com"),
     person("Chung-hong", "Chan", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "chainsawtiney@gmail.com", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-6232-7530")),
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ URL: https://docs.ropensci.org/readODS/, https://github.com/ropensci/readODS
 BugReports: https://github.com/ropensci/readODS/issues
 Imports:
     cellranger,
-    readr (>= 1.2.1),
+    minty,
     stringi,
     tibble,
     vctrs (>= 0.4.2),
@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ Suggests:
     covr,
     knitr,
     rmarkdown,
-    withr
+    withr,
+    readr (>= 1.2.1)
 License: GPL-3
 RoxygenNote: 7.2.3
 Roxygen: list(markdown = TRUE)
diff --git a/R/read_ods.R b/R/read_ods.R
index 147bbe5..48759eb 100644
--- a/R/read_ods.R
+++ b/R/read_ods.R
@@ -139,22 +139,11 @@
     return(data.frame())
 }
 
-.type_convert <- function(df, col_types = NULL, verbose = TRUE, na = c("", "NA"), trim_ws = TRUE) {
-    if (verbose) {
-        res <- readr::type_convert(df = df, col_types, na = na)
-    } else {
-        suppressMessages({
-            res <- readr::type_convert(df = df, col_types, na = na, trim_ws = trim_ws)
-        })
-    }
-    return(res)
-}
-
 .handle_col_types <- function(res, col_types, verbose, na, trim_ws) {
     if (isTRUE(is.na(col_types)) || nrow(res) == 0) {
         return(res)
     }
-    .type_convert(df = res, col_types = col_types, verbose = verbose, na = na, trim_ws = trim_ws)
+    minty::type_convert(df = res, col_types = col_types, verbose = verbose, na = na, trim_ws = trim_ws)
 }
 
 ## standardise `sheet` parameter as a number, i.e. sheet_index