diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index b226595b2e..7853a853d0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ### Changed
 - Remove explicit unused Scaffeine dependency from projects [#3314](https://github.com/locationtech/geotrellis/pull/3314)
+- Remove an excessive close after the abort call in S3RangeReader [#3324](https://github.com/locationtech/geotrellis/pull/3324)
 
 ## [3.5.1] - 2020-11-23
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a9763f57cb..be1285a04e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ GeoTrellis is currently available for Scala 2.11 and 2.12, using Spark 2.4.x.
 To get started with SBT, simply add the following to your build.sbt file:
 
 ```scala
-libraryDependencies += "org.locationtech.geotrellis" %% "geotrellis-raster" % "3.0.0"
+libraryDependencies += "org.locationtech.geotrellis" %% "geotrellis-raster" % "<latest version>"
 ```
 
 To grab the latest `SNAPSHOT`, `RC` or milestone build, add these resolvers:
diff --git a/s3/src/main/scala/geotrellis/store/s3/util/S3RangeReader.scala b/s3/src/main/scala/geotrellis/store/s3/util/S3RangeReader.scala
index 00cf34a144..aa80e108da 100644
--- a/s3/src/main/scala/geotrellis/store/s3/util/S3RangeReader.scala
+++ b/s3/src/main/scala/geotrellis/store/s3/util/S3RangeReader.scala
@@ -55,8 +55,19 @@ class S3RangeReader(
       val responseStream = client.getObject(request)
       val length = responseStream.response.contentLength
 
+      /**
+        * The response stream is backed by [[org.apache.http.conn.EofSensorInputStream]].
+        * There is no need in closing the stream via close() after calling abort().
+        *
+        * abort() is a special version of close() which prevents
+        * re-use of the underlying connection, if any. Calling this method
+        * indicates that there should be no attempt to read until the end of
+        * the stream.
+        * * throws IOException in case of an IO problem on closing the underlying stream
+        *
+        * Source: https://github.com/apache/httpcomponents-core/blob/5.2.x/httpcore5/src/main/java/org/apache/hc/core5/http/io/EofSensorInputStream.java#L269-L283
+        */
       responseStream.abort()
-      responseStream.close()
       length
     }
   }