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@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@ bootstrap-vz
 ===========================================
 
 bootstrap-vz is a bootstrapping framework for Debian.
-It is is specifically intended to bootstrap systems for virtualized environments.
-It runs without any user intervention and generates ready-to-boot images for
-[a number of virtualization platforms(http://andsens.github.io/bootstrap-vz/providers.html).
-Its aim is to provide a reproducable bootstrapping process using <a href="manifest.html">manifests</a>
-as well as supporting a high degree of customizability through plugins.<br/>
-bootstrap-vz was coded from scratch in python once the bash scripts that were used in the
-[build-debian-cloud](https://github.com/andsens/build-debian-cloud) bootstrapper reached their
+It is is specifically targeted at bootstrapping systems for virtualized environments.
+bootstrap-vz runs without any user intervention and generates ready-to-boot images for
+[a number of virtualization platforms](http://andsens.github.io/bootstrap-vz/providers.html).
+Its aim is to provide a reproducable bootstrapping process using [manifests](http://andsens.github.io/bootstrap-vz/manifest.html) as well as supporting a high degree of customizability through plugins.
+
+bootstrap-vz was coded from scratch in python once the bash script architecture that was used in the
+[build-debian-cloud](https://github.com/andsens/build-debian-cloud) bootstrapper reached its
 limits.
 
 Documentation
@@ -16,5 +16,5 @@ Documentation
 The documentation for bootstrap-vz is available
 at [andsens.github.io/bootstrap-vz](http://andsens.github.io/bootstrap-vz).
 There, you can discover [what the dependencies](http://andsens.github.io/bootstrap-vz/#dependencies)
-for a specific cloud provider are, [see the list of available plugins](http://andsens.github.io/bootstrap-vz/plugins.html)
+for a specific cloud provider are, [see a list of available plugins](http://andsens.github.io/bootstrap-vz/plugins.html)
 and learn [how you create a manifest](http://andsens.github.io/bootstrap-vz/manifest.html).