diff --git a/openpgp-card/README.md b/openpgp-card/README.md
index 503f560..982c5f9 100644
--- a/openpgp-card/README.md
+++ b/openpgp-card/README.md
@@ -9,13 +9,25 @@ This crate implements a client library for the
 [OpenPGP card](https://gnupg.org/ftp/specs/OpenPGP-smart-card-application-3.4.1.pdf)
 specification, in Rust.
 
-This library is OpenPGP implementation-agnostic. Its communication with 
-the card is based on simple data structures, derived from the formats 
-defined in the OpenPGP card specification.
+This library provides low level, OpenPGP implementation-agnostic access to 
+OpenPGP cards. Its communication with cards is based on simple data 
+structures that closely match the formats defined in the OpenPGP card 
+specification.
+
+**Card access backends**
+
+This crate doesn't contain code to talk to cards, The trait `CardClient` 
+needs to be implemented for access to cards.
+
+The crates
+[openpgp-card-pcsc](https://crates.io/crates/openpgp-card-pcsc)
+and the experimental crate
+[openpgp-card-scdc](https://gitlab.com/hkos/openpgp-card/-/tree/main/scdc)
+provide implementations of `CardClient` for use with this crate.
 
 **Sequoia PGP wrapper**
 
 See the companion crate
 [openpgp-card-sequoia](https://crates.io/crates/openpgp-card-sequoia)
-for a convenient wrapper to use this library with
+for a high level wrapper to use this library with
 [Sequoia PGP](https://sequoia-pgp.org/).
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diff --git a/pcsc/README.md b/pcsc/README.md
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/pcsc/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+<!--
+SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Heiko Schaefer <heiko@schaefer.name>
+SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT OR Apache-2.0
+-->
+
+**pcsc client for the openpgp-card library**
+
+This crate provides `PcscClient`, which is an implementation of the 
+`CardClient` trait that uses [pcsc](https://crates.io/crates/pcsc)
+to access OpenPGP cards.
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