diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 81bec1a..8d33a36 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -146,6 +146,10 @@ The package can also be used as a library:
 	with open("name.pdf","wb") as f1, open("test.jpg") as f2:
 		f1.write(img2pdf.convert(f2))
 
+	# opening using pathlib
+	with open("name.pdf","wb") as f:
+		f.write(img2pdf.convert(pathlib.Path('test.jpg')))
+
 	# using in-memory image data
 	with open("name.pdf","wb") as f:
 		f.write(img2pdf.convert("\x89PNG...")
@@ -188,6 +192,11 @@ The package can also be used as a library:
 	with open("name.pdf","wb") as f:
 		f.write(img2pdf.convert(glob.glob("/path/to/*.jpg")))
 
+	# convert all files matching a glob using pathlib.Path
+	from pathlib import Path
+	with open("name.pdf","wb") as f:
+		f.write(img2pdf.convert(*Path("/path").glob("**/*.jpg")))
+
 	# ignore invalid rotation values in the input images
 	with open("name.pdf","wb") as f:
 		f.write(img2pdf.convert('test.jpg'), rotation=img2pdf.Rotation.ifvalid)
diff --git a/src/img2pdf.py b/src/img2pdf.py
index 1954d66..ed5a6f3 100755
--- a/src/img2pdf.py
+++ b/src/img2pdf.py
@@ -2529,11 +2529,16 @@ def convert(*images, **kwargs):
     for img in images:
         # img is allowed to be a path, a binary string representing image data
         # or a file-like object (really anything that implements read())
-        try:
-            rawdata = img.read()
-        except AttributeError:
+        # or a pathlib.Path object (really anything that implements read_bytes())
+        rawdata = None
+        for fun in "read", "read_bytes":
+            try:
+                rawdata = getattr(img, fun)()
+            except AttributeError:
+                pass
+        if rawdata is None:
             if not isinstance(img, (str, bytes)):
-                raise TypeError("Neither implements read() nor is str or bytes")
+                raise TypeError("Neither read(), read_bytes() nor is str or bytes")
             # the thing doesn't have a read() function, so try if we can treat
             # it as a file name
             try: