diff --git a/src/uu/wc/src/utf8/read.rs b/src/uu/wc/src/utf8/read.rs
index 3556436f9..af10cbb53 100644
--- a/src/uu/wc/src/utf8/read.rs
+++ b/src/uu/wc/src/utf8/read.rs
@@ -4,9 +4,8 @@
 // file that was distributed with this source code.
 // spell-checker:ignore bytestream
 use super::*;
-use std::error::Error;
-use std::fmt;
 use std::io::{self, BufRead};
+use thiserror::Error;
 
 /// Wraps a `std::io::BufRead` buffered byte stream and decode it as UTF-8.
 pub struct BufReadDecoder<B: BufRead> {
@@ -15,36 +14,18 @@ pub struct BufReadDecoder<B: BufRead> {
     incomplete: Incomplete,
 }
 
-#[derive(Debug)]
+#[derive(Debug, Error)]
 pub enum BufReadDecoderError<'a> {
     /// Represents one UTF-8 error in the byte stream.
     ///
     /// In lossy decoding, each such error should be replaced with U+FFFD.
     /// (See `BufReadDecoder::next_lossy` and `BufReadDecoderError::lossy`.)
+    #[error("invalid byte sequence: {0:02x?}")]
     InvalidByteSequence(&'a [u8]),
 
     /// An I/O error from the underlying byte stream
-    Io(io::Error),
-}
-
-impl fmt::Display for BufReadDecoderError<'_> {
-    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
-        match *self {
-            BufReadDecoderError::InvalidByteSequence(bytes) => {
-                write!(f, "invalid byte sequence: {bytes:02x?}")
-            }
-            BufReadDecoderError::Io(ref err) => write!(f, "underlying bytestream error: {err}"),
-        }
-    }
-}
-
-impl Error for BufReadDecoderError<'_> {
-    fn source(&self) -> Option<&(dyn Error + 'static)> {
-        match *self {
-            BufReadDecoderError::InvalidByteSequence(_) => None,
-            BufReadDecoderError::Io(ref err) => Some(err),
-        }
-    }
+    #[error("underlying bytestream error: {0}")]
+    Io(#[source] io::Error),
 }
 
 impl<B: BufRead> BufReadDecoder<B> {