diff --git a/Libraries/UniversalEditor.Core/IO/ReaderWriterBase.cs b/Libraries/UniversalEditor.Core/IO/ReaderWriterBase.cs
index 6920ee4e..ca590d0f 100644
--- a/Libraries/UniversalEditor.Core/IO/ReaderWriterBase.cs
+++ b/Libraries/UniversalEditor.Core/IO/ReaderWriterBase.cs
@@ -109,5 +109,12 @@ namespace UniversalEditor.IO
 				Accessor.Position += paddingCount;
 			}
 		}
+
+		public long CalculateAlignment(long currentPosition, long alignTo, long extraPadding = 0)
+		{
+			long paddingCount = ((alignTo - (currentPosition % alignTo)) % alignTo);
+			paddingCount += extraPadding;
+			return paddingCount;
+		}
 	}
 }
diff --git a/Libraries/UniversalEditor.Core/IO/Writer.cs b/Libraries/UniversalEditor.Core/IO/Writer.cs
index dff9a9c8..65fdbd8b 100644
--- a/Libraries/UniversalEditor.Core/IO/Writer.cs
+++ b/Libraries/UniversalEditor.Core/IO/Writer.cs
@@ -168,13 +168,6 @@ namespace UniversalEditor.IO
 			WriteBytes(realData);
 		}
 
-		public long CalculateAlignment(long currentPosition, long alignTo, long extraPadding = 0)
-		{
-			long paddingCount = ((alignTo - (currentPosition % alignTo)) % alignTo);
-			paddingCount += extraPadding;
-			return paddingCount;
-		}
-
 		public void WriteLengthPrefixedString(string value)
 		{
 			WriteLengthPrefixedString(value, base.Accessor.DefaultEncoding);