diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index a86e162f..ad09d16f 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@
     "chai-as-promised": "^8.0.1",
     "del-cli": "^6.0.0",
     "mocha": "^11.1.0",
+    "node-readable-to-web-readable-stream": "^0.4.2",
     "remark-cli": "^12.0.1",
     "remark-preset-lint-recommended": "^7.0.1",
     "token-types": "^6.0.0",
diff --git a/test/test.ts b/test/test.ts
index 40770352..d9264e8c 100644
--- a/test/test.ts
+++ b/test/test.ts
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ import { EndOfStreamError } from 'peek-readable';
 import mocha from 'mocha';
 import { stringToUint8Array } from 'uint8array-extras';
 
-import { DelayedStream, makeReadableByteFileStream } from './util.js';
+import { DelayedStream, makeByteReadableStreamFromFile } from './util.js';
 import process from 'node:process';
 
 use(chaiAsPromised);
@@ -64,8 +64,8 @@ describe('Matrix tests', () => {
     }, {
       name: 'fromWebStream()',
       loadTokenizer: async (testFile, delay, abortSignal?: AbortSignal) => {
-        const fileStream = await makeReadableByteFileStream(Path.join(__dirname, 'resources', testFile), delay);
-        return fromWebStream(fileStream.stream, {onClose: () => fileStream.closeFile(), abortSignal});
+        const fileStream = makeByteReadableStreamFromFile(Path.join(__dirname, 'resources', testFile), delay);
+        return fromWebStream(fileStream, {abortSignal});
       },
       hasFileInfo: false,
       abortable: true,
@@ -1068,15 +1068,10 @@ it('should determine the file size using a file stream', async () => {
 
 it('should release stream after close', async () => {
 
-  const fileStream = await makeReadableByteFileStream(Path.join(__dirname, 'resources', 'test1.dat'), 0);
-  const stream = fileStream.stream;
-  assert.isFalse(stream.locked, 'stream is unlocked before initializing tokenizer');
-  const webStreamTokenizer = fromWebStream(fileStream.stream, {
-    onClose: () => {
-      return fileStream.closeFile();
-    }
-  });
-  assert.isTrue(stream.locked, 'stream is locked after initializing tokenizer');
+  const fileStream = makeByteReadableStreamFromFile(Path.join(__dirname, 'resources', 'test1.dat'), 0);
+  assert.isFalse(fileStream.locked, 'stream is unlocked before initializing tokenizer');
+  const webStreamTokenizer = fromWebStream(fileStream);
+  assert.isTrue(fileStream.locked, 'stream is locked after initializing tokenizer');
   await webStreamTokenizer.close();
-  assert.isFalse(stream.locked, 'stream is unlocked after closing tokenizer');
+  assert.isFalse(fileStream.locked, 'stream is unlocked after closing tokenizer');
 });
diff --git a/test/util.ts b/test/util.ts
index 0d862e17..2ea170a8 100644
--- a/test/util.ts
+++ b/test/util.ts
@@ -1,51 +1,23 @@
-import * as fs from 'node:fs/promises';
-import { ReadableStream } from 'node:stream/web';
-import { Readable } from 'node:stream';
-
-export async function makeReadableByteFileStream(filename: string, delay = 0): Promise<{ stream: ReadableStream<Uint8Array>, closeFile: () => Promise<void> }> {
-
-  let position = 0;
-  const fileHandle = await fs.open(filename, 'r');
-
-  return {
-    stream: new ReadableStream({
-      type: 'bytes',
-
-      async pull(controller) {
-
-        // @ts-ignore
-        const view = controller.byobRequest.view;
-
-        setTimeout(async () => {
-          try {
-            const {bytesRead} = await fileHandle.read(view, 0, view.byteLength, position);
-            if (bytesRead === 0) {
-              await fileHandle.close();
-              controller.close();
-              // @ts-ignore
-              controller.byobRequest.respond(0);
-            } else {
-              position += bytesRead;
-              // @ts-ignore
-              controller.byobRequest.respond(bytesRead);
-            }
-          } catch (err) {
-            controller.error(err);
-            await fileHandle.close();
-          }
-        }, delay);
-      },
-
-      cancel() {
-        return fileHandle.close();
-      },
-
-      autoAllocateChunkSize: 1024
-    }),
-    closeFile: () => {
-      return fileHandle.close();
+import { createReadStream } from  'node:fs';
+import { Transform, Readable } from 'node:stream';
+import { makeByteReadableStreamFromNodeReadable } from 'node-readable-to-web-readable-stream';
+
+export function makeByteReadableStreamFromFile(filename: string, delay = 0): ReadableStream<Uint8Array> {
+
+  // Create a Node.js Readable stream
+  const nodeReadable = createReadStream(filename);
+
+  // Create a Transform stream to introduce delay
+  const delayTransform = new Transform({
+    transform(chunk, encoding, callback) {
+      setTimeout(() => callback(null, chunk), delay);
     }
-  };
+  });
+
+  // Pipe through the delay transform
+  const delayedNodeStream = nodeReadable.pipe(delayTransform);
+
+  return makeByteReadableStreamFromNodeReadable(delayedNodeStream);
 }
 
 export class DelayedStream extends Readable {
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index af82089a..d7ee5e7c 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -2359,6 +2359,13 @@ __metadata:
   languageName: node
   linkType: hard
 
+"node-readable-to-web-readable-stream@npm:^0.4.2":
+  version: 0.4.2
+  resolution: "node-readable-to-web-readable-stream@npm:0.4.2"
+  checksum: 10c0/8c3d09cac51c5f886e1636fa2a5404d664245c8bdc9a65e102552894963ed1b27207d5b94de59e37045d81cb9e8970cf79e561006df7ee8821cb761e728b3a80
+  languageName: node
+  linkType: hard
+
 "nopt@npm:^7.0.0, nopt@npm:^7.2.1":
   version: 7.2.1
   resolution: "nopt@npm:7.2.1"
@@ -3136,6 +3143,7 @@ __metadata:
     chai-as-promised: "npm:^8.0.1"
     del-cli: "npm:^6.0.0"
     mocha: "npm:^11.1.0"
+    node-readable-to-web-readable-stream: "npm:^0.4.2"
     peek-readable: "npm:^7.0.0"
     remark-cli: "npm:^12.0.1"
     remark-preset-lint-recommended: "npm:^7.0.1"