diff --git a/pgio/doc.go b/pgio/doc.go
index 36233a47..ef2dcc7f 100644
--- a/pgio/doc.go
+++ b/pgio/doc.go
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
-// Package pgio a extremely low-level IO toolkit for the PostgreSQL wire protocol.
+// Package pgio is a low-level toolkit building messages in the PostgreSQL wire protocol.
 /*
-pgio provides functions for reading and writing integers from io.Reader and
-io.Writer while doing byte order conversion. It publishes interfaces which
-readers and writers may implement to decode and encode messages with the minimum
-of memory allocations.
+pgio provides functions for appending integers to a []byte while doing byte
+order conversion.
 */
 package pgio
diff --git a/pgio/read.go b/pgio/read.go
deleted file mode 100644
index 033bada4..00000000
--- a/pgio/read.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,51 +0,0 @@
-package pgio
-
-import (
-	"bytes"
-	"encoding/binary"
-)
-
-func NextByte(buf []byte) ([]byte, byte) {
-	b := buf[0]
-	return buf[1:], b
-}
-
-func NextUint16(buf []byte) ([]byte, uint16) {
-	n := binary.BigEndian.Uint16(buf)
-	return buf[2:], n
-}
-
-func NextUint32(buf []byte) ([]byte, uint32) {
-	n := binary.BigEndian.Uint32(buf)
-	return buf[4:], n
-}
-
-func NextUint64(buf []byte) ([]byte, uint64) {
-	n := binary.BigEndian.Uint64(buf)
-	return buf[8:], n
-}
-
-func NextInt16(buf []byte) ([]byte, int16) {
-	buf, n := NextUint16(buf)
-	return buf, int16(n)
-}
-
-func NextInt32(buf []byte) ([]byte, int32) {
-	buf, n := NextUint32(buf)
-	return buf, int32(n)
-}
-
-func NextInt64(buf []byte) ([]byte, int64) {
-	buf, n := NextUint64(buf)
-	return buf, int64(n)
-}
-
-func NextCString(buf []byte) ([]byte, string, bool) {
-	idx := bytes.IndexByte(buf, 0)
-	if idx < 0 {
-		return buf, "", false
-	}
-	cstring := string(buf[:idx])
-	buf = buf[:idx+1]
-	return buf, cstring, true
-}
diff --git a/pgio/read_test.go b/pgio/read_test.go
deleted file mode 100644
index fbe29ae4..00000000
--- a/pgio/read_test.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,57 +0,0 @@
-package pgio
-
-import (
-	"testing"
-)
-
-func TestNextByte(t *testing.T) {
-	buf := []byte{42, 1}
-	var b byte
-	buf, b = NextByte(buf)
-	if b != 42 {
-		t.Errorf("NextByte(buf) => %v, want %v", b, 42)
-	}
-	buf, b = NextByte(buf)
-	if b != 1 {
-		t.Errorf("NextByte(buf) => %v, want %v", b, 1)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestNextUint16(t *testing.T) {
-	buf := []byte{0, 42, 0, 1}
-	var n uint16
-	buf, n = NextUint16(buf)
-	if n != 42 {
-		t.Errorf("NextUint16(buf) => %v, want %v", n, 42)
-	}
-	buf, n = NextUint16(buf)
-	if n != 1 {
-		t.Errorf("NextUint16(buf) => %v, want %v", n, 1)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestNextUint32(t *testing.T) {
-	buf := []byte{0, 0, 0, 42, 0, 0, 0, 1}
-	var n uint32
-	buf, n = NextUint32(buf)
-	if n != 42 {
-		t.Errorf("NextUint32(buf) => %v, want %v", n, 42)
-	}
-	buf, n = NextUint32(buf)
-	if n != 1 {
-		t.Errorf("NextUint32(buf) => %v, want %v", n, 1)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestNextUint64(t *testing.T) {
-	buf := []byte{0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 42, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1}
-	var n uint64
-	buf, n = NextUint64(buf)
-	if n != 42 {
-		t.Errorf("NextUint64(buf) => %v, want %v", n, 42)
-	}
-	buf, n = NextUint64(buf)
-	if n != 1 {
-		t.Errorf("NextUint64(buf) => %v, want %v", n, 1)
-	}
-}