diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 05bba58..cad18fa 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Welcome to IPython.  Our full documentation is available on `our website
 <http://ipython.org/documentation.html>`_; if you downloaded a built source
 distribution the ``docs/source`` directory contains the plaintext version of
 these manuals.  If you have Sphinx installed, you can build them by typing
-``make html`` for local browsing.
+``cd docs; make html`` for local browsing.
 
 
 Dependencies and supported Python versions
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ functionality requires extra packages.
 
 Officially, IPython requires Python version 2.6, 2.7, or 3.1 and above.
 
-    
+
 Instant running
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