diff --git a/lib/notebooks/bag-of-words-count-stemmed-binary.ipynb b/lib/notebooks/bag-of-words-count-stemmed-binary.ipynb
index f38c5c8..f0cdd64 100644
--- a/lib/notebooks/bag-of-words-count-stemmed-binary.ipynb
+++ b/lib/notebooks/bag-of-words-count-stemmed-binary.ipynb
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
     "import sys\n",
     "module_path = os.path.abspath(os.path.join('..'))\n",
     "if module_path not in sys.path:\n",
-    "    sys.path.append(module_path)"
+    "    sys.path = [module_path] + sys.path"
    ]
   },
   {
diff --git a/lib/notebooks/explorations.ipynb b/lib/notebooks/explorations.ipynb
index 34c9ba5..bb28b43 100644
--- a/lib/notebooks/explorations.ipynb
+++ b/lib/notebooks/explorations.ipynb
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
     "import sys\n",
     "module_path = os.path.abspath(os.path.join('..'))\n",
     "if module_path not in sys.path:\n",
-    "    sys.path.append(module_path)"
+    "    sys.path = [module_path] + sys.path"
    ]
   },
   {