diff --git a/Text/Delimited/ByteString/Lazy.hs b/Text/Delimited/ByteString/Lazy.hs
--- a/Text/Delimited/ByteString/Lazy.hs
+++ b/Text/Delimited/ByteString/Lazy.hs
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
     encode, decode, interact
 ) where
 
-import           Data.ByteString.Lazy (ByteString, toChunks)
-import qualified Data.ByteString as BS
+import           Data.ByteString.Lazy (ByteString)
 import qualified Data.Attoparsec.Char8 as P
+import qualified Data.Attoparsec.Lazy as PL
 import           Prelude hiding (interact)
 import           Text.Delimited.Types
 import           Text.Delimited.Put (putContent, runPut)
@@ -14,10 +14,6 @@
 encode :: Char -> Content -> ByteString
 encode delim = runPut . putContent delim
 
--- | Construct a strict ByteString from a lazy one.
-fromLazy :: ByteString -> BS.ByteString
-fromLazy = BS.concat . toChunks
-
 -- | Construct a parser from 'a' terminated by 'b'.
 endBy :: P.Parser a -> P.Parser b -> P.Parser a
 a `endBy` b = do
@@ -30,8 +26,8 @@
 parser delims = line `P.manyTill` P.endOfInput
     where
         line  = (field `P.sepBy` sep) `endBy` eol
-        field = fromLazy `fmap` P.takeWhile (P.notInClass (delims ++ nls))
-        sep   =              P.satisfy $ P.inClass delims
+        field = P.takeWhile (P.notInClass (delims ++ nls))
+        sep   = P.satisfy (P.inClass delims)
         eol   = P.skipMany1 (P.satisfy $ P.inClass nls)
         nls   = "\n\r"
 
@@ -40,7 +36,7 @@
 -- no way of escaping delimiters, so record fields may not contain any of the
 -- characters in 'delims'.
 decode :: [Char] -> ByteString -> Result Content
-decode delims = snd . P.parse (parser delims)
+decode delims = PL.eitherResult . PL.parse (parser delims)
 
 -- | Decode a ByteString, apply a function to each 'Record' and encode the content.
 -- Delimiters may contain multiple characters but only the first is used for
diff --git a/Text/Delimited/Types.hs b/Text/Delimited/Types.hs
--- a/Text/Delimited/Types.hs
+++ b/Text/Delimited/Types.hs
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 ) where
 
 import Data.ByteString (ByteString)
-import Data.Attoparsec.Char8 (ParseError)
 
 -- | A delimited file is a series of variable length records.
 type Content = [Record]
@@ -15,6 +14,9 @@
 
 -- | A field is a strict ByteString.
 type Field = ByteString
+
+-- | Error message type.
+type ParseError = String
 
 -- | Result type.
 type Result a = Either ParseError a
diff --git a/delimited-text.cabal b/delimited-text.cabal
--- a/delimited-text.cabal
+++ b/delimited-text.cabal
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 Name:               delimited-text
-Version:            0.2.1
+Version:            0.3.0
 Synopsis:           Parse character delimited textual data
 Description:        Parse character delimited textual data
 License:            BSD3
 License-File:       LICENSE
 Category:           Data
-Copyright:          Copyright (c) Stefan Kersten 2008-2010
+Copyright:          Copyright (c) Stefan Kersten 2008-2011
 Author:             Stefan Kersten <sk@xdv.org>
 Maintainer:         Stefan Kersten <sk@xdv.org>
 Stability:          provisional
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
   Build-Depends:    base >= 3 && < 5
                   , binary >= 0.4
                   , bytestring
-                  , attoparsec >= 0.7 && < 0.8
+                  , attoparsec >= 0.8
                   , bytestring-show >= 0.2
 
   Ghc-Options:      -W