diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 2fbb331d..9bdab53e 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ edition = "2018"
 [dependencies]
 flate2 = { version = "1.0", default-features = false, optional = true }
 time = { version = "0.1", optional = true }
-podio = "0.1"
+byteorder = "1.3"
 bzip2 = { version = "0.3", optional = true }
 crc32fast = "1.0"
 thiserror = "1.0"
diff --git a/src/read.rs b/src/read.rs
index 52fe75cf..cffd0a95 100644
--- a/src/read.rs
+++ b/src/read.rs
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ use std::io::prelude::*;
 
 use crate::cp437::FromCp437;
 use crate::types::{DateTime, System, ZipFileData};
-use podio::{LittleEndian, ReadPodExt};
+use byteorder::{LittleEndian, ReadBytesExt};
 
 #[cfg(feature = "deflate")]
 use flate2::read::DeflateDecoder;
@@ -341,9 +341,12 @@ fn central_header_to_zip_file<R: Read + io::Seek>(
     let _internal_file_attributes = reader.read_u16::<LittleEndian>()?;
     let external_file_attributes = reader.read_u32::<LittleEndian>()?;
     let offset = reader.read_u32::<LittleEndian>()? as u64;
-    let file_name_raw = ReadPodExt::read_exact(reader, file_name_length)?;
-    let extra_field = ReadPodExt::read_exact(reader, extra_field_length)?;
-    let file_comment_raw = ReadPodExt::read_exact(reader, file_comment_length)?;
+    let mut file_name_raw = vec![0; file_name_length];
+    reader.read_exact(&mut file_name_raw)?;
+    let mut extra_field = vec![0; extra_field_length];
+    reader.read_exact(&mut extra_field)?;
+    let mut file_comment_raw = vec![0; file_comment_length];
+    reader.read_exact(&mut file_comment_raw)?;
 
     let file_name = match is_utf8 {
         true => String::from_utf8_lossy(&*file_name_raw).into_owned(),
@@ -621,8 +624,10 @@ pub fn read_zipfile_from_stream<'a, R: io::Read>(
     let file_name_length = reader.read_u16::<LittleEndian>()? as usize;
     let extra_field_length = reader.read_u16::<LittleEndian>()? as usize;
 
-    let file_name_raw = ReadPodExt::read_exact(reader, file_name_length)?;
-    let extra_field = ReadPodExt::read_exact(reader, extra_field_length)?;
+    let mut file_name_raw = vec![0; file_name_length];
+    reader.read_exact(&mut file_name_raw)?;
+    let mut extra_field = vec![0; extra_field_length];
+    reader.read_exact(&mut extra_field)?;
 
     let file_name = match is_utf8 {
         true => String::from_utf8_lossy(&*file_name_raw).into_owned(),
diff --git a/src/spec.rs b/src/spec.rs
index c2ff907b..8fa8c5c1 100644
--- a/src/spec.rs
+++ b/src/spec.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 use crate::result::{ZipError, ZipResult};
-use podio::{LittleEndian, ReadPodExt, WritePodExt};
+use byteorder::{LittleEndian, ReadBytesExt, WriteBytesExt};
 use std::io;
 use std::io::prelude::*;
 
@@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ impl CentralDirectoryEnd {
         let central_directory_size = reader.read_u32::<LittleEndian>()?;
         let central_directory_offset = reader.read_u32::<LittleEndian>()?;
         let zip_file_comment_length = reader.read_u16::<LittleEndian>()? as usize;
-        let zip_file_comment = ReadPodExt::read_exact(reader, zip_file_comment_length)?;
+        let mut zip_file_comment = vec![0; zip_file_comment_length];
+        reader.read_exact(&mut zip_file_comment)?;
 
         Ok(CentralDirectoryEnd {
             disk_number,
diff --git a/src/write.rs b/src/write.rs
index d7ed628e..b3e9abac 100644
--- a/src/write.rs
+++ b/src/write.rs
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ use crate::compression::CompressionMethod;
 use crate::result::{ZipError, ZipResult};
 use crate::spec;
 use crate::types::{DateTime, System, ZipFileData, DEFAULT_VERSION};
+use byteorder::{LittleEndian, WriteBytesExt};
 use crc32fast::Hasher;
-use podio::{LittleEndian, WritePodExt};
 use std::default::Default;
 use std::io;
 use std::io::prelude::*;