diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index ce652462..cd366453 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@
     "mdast-util-to-string": "^4.0.0",
     "prettier": "^3.5.3",
     "prettier-plugin-astro": "^0.14.1",
-    "reading-time": "^1.5.0",
     "remark-breaks": "^4.0.0",
     "typescript": "^5.8.2",
     "unist-util-filter": "^5.0.1"
diff --git a/tools/remark-reading-time.mjs b/tools/remark-reading-time.mjs
index f3a592b5..8824bc47 100644
--- a/tools/remark-reading-time.mjs
+++ b/tools/remark-reading-time.mjs
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import getReadingTime from "reading-time";
 import { toString } from "mdast-util-to-string";
 import { filter } from "unist-util-filter";
 
@@ -6,6 +5,10 @@ import assert from "node:assert/strict";
 
 const WORDS_PER_MINUTE = 265;
 
+const segmenter = new Intl.Segmenter("en-US", {
+  granularity: "word",
+});
+
 // Food for thoughts: have 2 different metrics for images & code blocks.
 // And use the image size as a baseline (bigger images will take more time than smaller ones),
 // and same for code blocks: larger code blocks should take more time.
@@ -41,11 +44,11 @@ assert.equal(getSecondsAddedByImages(14), (totalForTest += 3));
 
 export function remarkReadingTime() {
   return (tree, { data }) => {
-    let nbOfImages = 0;
+    let imagesCount = 0;
     const filteredTree = filter(tree, (node) => {
       // Treat images & code as "meta content"
       if (node.type === "image" || node.type === "code") {
-        nbOfImages++;
+        imagesCount++;
       }
       return (
         node.type !== "code" && // Remove code blocks (easily read)
@@ -62,31 +65,23 @@ export function remarkReadingTime() {
     // - https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/214991667-Read-time (for 265WPM)
     // - https://mediumcourse.com/how-is-medium-article-read-time-calculated/ (for the image timing)
 
-    const readingTime = getReadingTime(textOnPage);
-
-    // `readingTime` contains a few information:
-    // - `text`: Human readable duration, like "3 min read",
-    // - `words`: The total word count
-    // - `minutes`: Total reading time duration in minutes
-    // - `time`: Total reading time duration in milliseconds
-    // As we want to manipulate this data manually, we'll just use `words`
-
-    const words = readingTime.words;
+    const wordsCount = [...segmenter.segment(textOnPage)].filter(
+      ({ isWordLike }) => isWordLike,
+    ).length;
 
-    let time = Math.round((words / WORDS_PER_MINUTE) * 60_000); // round to avoid issues with floats
+    let totalMs = Math.round((wordsCount / WORDS_PER_MINUTE) * 60_000); // round to avoid issues with floats
 
-    const nbOfImagesBellow10 = Math.min(nbOfImages, 10);
-    const timeAddedByImages = getSecondsAddedByImages(nbOfImages) * 1000; // to milliseconds
-    time += timeAddedByImages;
+    const nbOfImagesBellow10 = Math.min(imagesCount, 10);
+    const timeAddedByImages = getSecondsAddedByImages(imagesCount) * 1000; // to milliseconds
+    totalMs += timeAddedByImages;
 
-    const minutes = time / 60_000;
-    const displayedText = Math.ceil(minutes.toFixed(2)) + " min read";
+    const minutes = totalMs / 60_000;
+    const displayedText = Math.ceil(minutes) + " min read";
 
     const finalReadingTime = {
-      words,
-      time,
-      minutes,
-      displayedText,
+      words: wordsCount, // The total word count
+      minutes, // Total reading time duration in minutes
+      displayedText, // Human readable duration, like "3 min read"
     };
 
     data.astro.frontmatter.readingTime = finalReadingTime;
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 325b8bd3..63c71a18 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -7788,7 +7788,6 @@ __metadata:
     react-dom: "npm:^19.1.0"
     react-dom-18: "patch:react-dom@npm%3A18.3.1#~/.yarn/patches/react-dom-npm-18.3.1-a805663f38.patch"
     react-konva: "npm:^19.0.3"
-    reading-time: "npm:^1.5.0"
     remark-breaks: "npm:^4.0.0"
     reveal.js: "npm:^5.2.1"
     typescript: "npm:^5.8.2"
@@ -8049,13 +8048,6 @@ __metadata:
   languageName: node
   linkType: hard
 
-"reading-time@npm:^1.5.0":
-  version: 1.5.0
-  resolution: "reading-time@npm:1.5.0"
-  checksum: 10c0/0f730852fd4fb99e5f78c5b0cf36ab8c3fa15db96f87d9563843f6fd07a47864273ade539ebb184b785b728cde81a70283aa2d9b80cba5ca03b81868be03cabc
-  languageName: node
-  linkType: hard
-
 "recma-build-jsx@npm:^1.0.0":
   version: 1.0.0
   resolution: "recma-build-jsx@npm:1.0.0"