diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4734269..adc54a7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ Only projects that are stable and useful to users are added. Projects that do no
 ### Compression
 
 * [alexcrichton/bzip2-rs](https://github.com/alexcrichton/bzip2-rs) — [libbz2](http://www.bzip.org) bindings [<img src="https://travis-ci.org/alexcrichton/bzip2-rs.svg?branch=master">](https://travis-ci.org/alexcrichton/bzip2-rs)
-* [alexcrichton/tar-rs](https://github.com/alexcrichton/tar-rs) — []() bindings [<img src="https://travis-ci.org/alexcrichton/tar-rs.svg?branch=master">](https://travis-ci.org/alexcrichton/tar-rs)
+* [alexcrichton/tar-rs](https://github.com/alexcrichton/tar-rs) — tar archive reading/writing in Rust [<img src="https://travis-ci.org/alexcrichton/tar-rs.svg?branch=master">](https://travis-ci.org/alexcrichton/tar-rs)
 * [lifthrasiir/rust-zip](https://github.com/lifthrasiir/rust-zip) — read and write ZIP archives [<img src="https://travis-ci.org/lifthrasiir/rust-zip.svg?branch=master">](https://travis-ci.org/lifthrasiir/rust-zip)
 
 ### Computation
diff --git a/generate_markdown_files.py b/generate_markdown_files.py
index 398308e..5ee4ea4 100644
--- a/generate_markdown_files.py
+++ b/generate_markdown_files.py
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ DATA = \
         },
         'alexcrichton/tar-rs': {
             "url": 'https://github.com/alexcrichton/tar-rs',
-            "descr": md_link('', '') + ' bindings',
+            "descr": 'tar archive reading/writing in Rust',
             "travis_url": 'https://travis-ci.org/alexcrichton/tar-rs',
             "travis_badge": 'https://travis-ci.org/alexcrichton/tar-rs.svg?branch=master',
         },