diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 5880bbfc7..9837836f2 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -96,7 +96,8 @@ first a summary, then a detailed log.</para>
 </listitem>
 
 <listitem><para>December 3rd, 2004 [jim]: Changed readline and zlib instructions
-to use --libdir for the libraries. Dumped perl to 5.8.6.</para></listitem>
+to use --libdir for the libraries. Dumped perl to 5.8.6. Corrected wording in
+readline.</para></listitem>
 
 <listitem><para>December 1st, 2004 [jeremy]: Minor entity revisions in the XML
 sources, patch courtesy of Boris Buegling.</para></listitem>
diff --git a/chapter06/readline.xml b/chapter06/readline.xml
index 64feb87a0..482c356a3 100644
--- a/chapter06/readline.xml
+++ b/chapter06/readline.xml
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ sometimes will only show 33 characters on a line and then wrap to the next line.
 
 <screen><userinput>chmod 755 /lib/lib{readline.history}.so*</userinput></screen>
 
-<para>Now we move them static libraries to a more appropriate location:</para>
+<para>Now we move the static libraries to a more appropriate location:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>mv /lib/lib{readline,history}.a /usr/lib</userinput></screen>