diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 79813f1041d..93b03a5693f 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -173,7 +173,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "htmlescape 0.3.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "hyper 0.12.10 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "hyper-tls 0.3.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
- "itertools 0.7.11 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "jemalloc-ctl 0.2.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "jemallocator 0.1.9 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
  "lazy_static 1.2.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
@@ -556,11 +555,6 @@ name = "dtoa"
 version = "0.4.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 
-[[package]]
-name = "either"
-version = "1.3.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "email"
 version = "0.0.19"
@@ -936,14 +930,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "winapi 0.2.8 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "itertools"
-version = "0.7.11"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-dependencies = [
- "either 1.3.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "itoa"
 version = "0.3.4"
@@ -2608,7 +2594,6 @@ dependencies = [
 "checksum docopt 0.8.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "3b5b93718f8b3e5544fcc914c43de828ca6c6ace23e0332c6080a2977b49787a"
 "checksum dotenv 0.11.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "a70de3c590ce18df70743cace1cf12565637a0b26fd8b04ef10c7d33fdc66cdc"
 "checksum dtoa 0.4.2 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "09c3753c3db574d215cba4ea76018483895d7bff25a31b49ba45db21c48e50ab"
-"checksum either 1.3.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "e311a7479512fbdf858fb54d91ec59f3b9f85bc0113659f46bba12b199d273ce"
 "checksum email 0.0.19 (git+https://github.com/lettre/rust-email)" = "<none>"
 "checksum encoding 0.2.33 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "6b0d943856b990d12d3b55b359144ff341533e516d94098b1d3fc1ac666d36ec"
 "checksum encoding-index-japanese 1.20141219.5 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "04e8b2ff42e9a05335dbf8b5c6f7567e5591d0d916ccef4e0b1710d32a0d0c91"
@@ -2651,7 +2636,6 @@ dependencies = [
 "checksum idna 0.1.4 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "014b298351066f1512874135335d62a789ffe78a9974f94b43ed5621951eaf7d"
 "checksum indexmap 1.0.1 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "08173ba1e906efb6538785a8844dd496f5d34f0a2d88038e95195172fc667220"
 "checksum iovec 0.1.2 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "dbe6e417e7d0975db6512b90796e8ce223145ac4e33c377e4a42882a0e88bb08"
-"checksum itertools 0.7.11 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "0d47946d458e94a1b7bcabbf6521ea7c037062c81f534615abcad76e84d4970d"
 "checksum itoa 0.3.4 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "8324a32baf01e2ae060e9de58ed0bc2320c9a2833491ee36cd3b4c414de4db8c"
 "checksum itoa 0.4.3 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "1306f3464951f30e30d12373d31c79fbd52d236e5e896fd92f96ec7babbbe60b"
 "checksum jemalloc-ctl 0.2.0 (registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index)" = "4e93b0f37e7d735c6b610176d5b1bde8e1621ff3f6f7ac23cdfa4e7f7d0111b5"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 86b45064a5b..e9ec9880ce3 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -56,7 +56,6 @@ chrono = { version = "0.4.0", features = ["serde"] }
 comrak = { version = "0.2.3", default-features = false }
 ammonia = "1.0.0"
 docopt = "0.8.1"
-itertools = "0.7.0"
 scheduled-thread-pool = "0.2.0"
 derive_deref = "1.0.0"
 reqwest = "0.9.1"
diff --git a/src/bin/render-readmes.rs b/src/bin/render-readmes.rs
index 66238804a38..ea636401a33 100644
--- a/src/bin/render-readmes.rs
+++ b/src/bin/render-readmes.rs
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ use chrono::{TimeZone, Utc};
 use diesel::{dsl::any, prelude::*};
 use docopt::Docopt;
 use flate2::read::GzDecoder;
-use itertools::Itertools;
 use tar::{self, Archive};
 
 const DEFAULT_PAGE_SIZE: usize = 25;
@@ -95,23 +94,16 @@ fn main() {
         total_pages + 1
     };
 
-    for (page_num, version_ids_chunk) in version_ids
-        .into_iter()
-        .chunks(page_size)
-        .into_iter()
-        .enumerate()
-    {
+    for (page_num, version_ids_chunk) in version_ids.chunks(page_size).enumerate() {
         println!(
             "= Page {} of {} ==================================",
             page_num + 1,
             total_pages
         );
 
-        let ids: Vec<_> = version_ids_chunk.collect();
-
         let versions = versions::table
             .inner_join(crates::table)
-            .filter(versions::id.eq(any(ids)))
+            .filter(versions::id.eq(any(version_ids_chunk)))
             .select((versions::all_columns, crates::name))
             .load::<(Version, String)>(&conn)
             .expect("error loading versions");