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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Koreader
+KOReader
 ========
 
 This is a document viewer application, created for usage on the Kindle e-ink reader.
@@ -6,11 +6,11 @@ It currently supports Kindle 5 (Touch) and Kindle Paperwhite. The devices need
 to be jailbroken in order to install the application. Also, a kind of external
 launcher is needed.
 
-Koreader started as the KindlePDFViewer application, but it supports much more
+KOReader started as the KindlePDFViewer application, but it supports much more
 formats than PDF now. Among them are DJVU, FB2, EPUB, TXT, CBZ, HTML.
 
-Koreader is a frontend written in Lua and uses the API presented by the
-Koreader-base framework. Koreader implements a GUI and is currently targeted
+KOReader is a frontend written in Lua and uses the API presented by the
+KOReader-base framework. KOReader implements a GUI and is currently targeted
 at Touch-based devices - for the classic user interface for button-driven
 e-ink devices (like the Kindle 2, Kindle DX, Kindle 3, Kindle 4) see the
 KindlePDFviewer legacy project or - especially for the Kindle 4 - have a look
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ Follow these steps:
 * run `make thirdparty`. This will build MuPDF (plus the libraries it depends
   on), libDjvuLibre, CREngine, libk2pdfopt and Lua.
 
-* run `make`. This will build the koreader application (see below if you want
+* run `make`. This will build the KOReader application (see below if you want
   to build in emulation mode so you can test it on PC)
 
 
@@ -71,8 +71,8 @@ this when you call it with a directory (instead of a file) as first argument.
 
 In emulator
 -----------
-You need to first compile koreader-base in emulation mode.
-  * If you have built koreader in real mode before, you need to clean it up:
+You need to first compile KOReader-base in emulation mode.
+  * If you have built KOReader in real mode before, you need to clean it up:
 
 ```
 make clean && make cleanthirdparty