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-RTV (Reddit Terminal Viewer)
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+# RTV (Reddit Terminal Viewer)
 
-| RTV provides an interface to view and interact with reddit from your terminal.
-| It's compatible with *most* terminal emulators on Linux and OS X.
+RTV provides an interface to view and interact with reddit from your terminal.
+It's compatible with *most* terminal emulators on Linux and OS X.
 
-.. image:: http://i.imgur.com/9utJir2.png
+<p align="center">
+<img alt="title image" src="resources/title_image.png"/>
+</p>
 
-|
-| RTV is built in **python** using the **curses** library.
+RTV is built in **python** using the **curses** library.
 
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 |pypi| |python| |travis-ci| |coveralls| |gitter|
 
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 * `Demo`_
 * `Installation`_