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 **This project is now maintained by Dean Jackson (@deanishe).** The awesome original author, @RadhiFadlillah, unfortunately no longer has the time (see [#256](https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori/issues/256)), and I am honoured to take over stewardship of such a fantastic application.
 
-Shiori is a simple bookmarks manager written in Go language. Intended as a simple clone of [Pocket](https://getpocket.com//). You can use it as command line application or as web application. This application is distributed as a single binary, which means it can be installed and used easily.
+Shiori is a simple bookmarks manager written in the Go language. Intended as a simple clone of [Pocket](https://getpocket.com//). You can use it as a command line application or as a web application. This application is distributed as a single binary, which means it can be installed and used easily.
 
 ![Screenshot](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/go-shiori/shiori/master/docs/readme/cover.png)
 
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 - Simple and clean command line interface.
 - Simple and pretty web interface for those who don't want to use a command line app.
 - Portable, thanks to its single binary format.
-- Support sqlite3, PostgreSQL and MySQL as its database.
+- Support for sqlite3, PostgreSQL and MySQL as its database.
 - Where possible, by default `shiori` will parse the readable content and create an offline archive of the webpage.
 - [BETA] [web extension](https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori-web-ext) support for Firefox and Chrome.
 
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 ## Documentation
 
-All documentation is available in [wiki](https://github.com/RadhiFadlillah/shiori/wiki). If you think there are incomplete or incorrect information, feels free to edit it.
+All documentation is available in [wiki](https://github.com/RadhiFadlillah/shiori/wiki). If you think there is incomplete or incorrect information, feel free to edit it.
 
 ## License
 
-Shiori is distributed using [MIT license](https://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/), which means you can use and modify it however you want. However, if you make an enhancement for it, if possible, please send a pull request.
+Shiori is distributed under the terms of the [MIT license](https://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/), which means you can use it and modify it however you want. However, if you make an enhancement for it, if possible, please send a pull request.