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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Download any website from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.
 
 ## Installation
 
-You need to install Ruby on your system if you don't already have it, then run:
+You need to install Ruby on your system - if you don't already have it, then run:
 
     gem install wayback_machine_downloader
 
@@ -12,17 +12,17 @@ You need to install Ruby on your system if you don't already have it, then run:
 
 ### Basic 
 
-Pass the base url of the website you want to retrieve as an argument (ie. http://example.com):
+Pass the base url of the website you want to retrieve as an argument (e.g., http://example.com):
 
     wayback_machine_downloader http://example.com
 
 ### How it works
 
-It will download the last version of every files present on Wayback Machine to `websites/example.com/`. It will also re-create a directory structure and auto-create `index.html` pages to work seamlessly with Apache and Nginx. URLs and links structure are preserved as much as possible.
+It will download the last version of every file present on Wayback Machine to `websites/example.com/`. It will also re-create a directory structure and auto-create `index.html` pages to work seamlessly with Apache and Nginx. URLs and links structure are preserved as much as possible.
 
 ### Optional Timestamp
 
-You may want to supply a speicifc timestamp to lock your backup to an older version of the website. Wayback Machine Downloader will then fetch only file versions on or prior to the timestamp specified:
+You may want to supply a specific timestamp to lock your backup to an older version of the website. Wayback Machine Downloader will then fetch only file versions on or prior to the timestamp specified:
 
     wayback_machine_downloader http://example.com` --timestamp 20060716231334