diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d6bcfde..c42f06b 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -6,8 +6,7 @@ which I find to be concise, clear, and well designed. CouchRest lightly wraps
 CouchDB's HTTP API, managing JSON serialization, and remembering the URI-paths
 to CouchDB's API endpoints so you don't have to.
 
-CouchRest's lighweight is designed to make a simple base for application and
-framework-specific object oriented APIs.
+CouchRest is designed to make a simple base for application and framework-specific object oriented APIs. CouchRest is Object-Mapper agnostic, the parsed JSON it returns from CouchDB shows up as subclasses of Ruby's Hash. Naked JSON, just as it was mean to be.
 
 ## Easy Install
 
diff --git a/examples/word_count/word_count.rb b/examples/word_count/word_count.rb
index f0321ae..4f3af68 100644
--- a/examples/word_count/word_count.rb
+++ b/examples/word_count/word_count.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../../couchrest'
+require 'rubygems'
+require 'couchrest'
 
 couch = CouchRest.new("http://127.0.0.1:5984")
 db = couch.database('word-count-example')
@@ -39,29 +40,7 @@ books.keys.each do |book|
     end
   end
 end
- 
-# word_count = {
-#   :map => 'function(doc){
-#     var words = doc.text.split(/\W/);
-#     words.forEach(function(word){
-#       if (word.length > 0) emit([word,doc.title],1);
-#     });
-#   }',
-#   :reduce => 'function(key,combine){
-#     return sum(combine);
-#   }'
-# }
-# 
-# db.delete db.get("_design/word_count") rescue nil
-# 
-# db.save({
-#   "_id" => "_design/word_count",
-#   :views => {
-#     :count => word_count,
-#     :words => {:map => word_count[:map]}
-#   }
-# })
 
 # puts "The books have been stored in your CouchDB. To initiate the MapReduce process, visit http://127.0.0.1:5984/_utils/ in your browser and click 'word-count-example', then select view 'words' or 'count'. The process could take about 15 minutes on an average MacBook."
-# 
+
 
diff --git a/examples/word_count/word_count_query.rb b/examples/word_count/word_count_query.rb
index e69b99a..07e2446 100644
--- a/examples/word_count/word_count_query.rb
+++ b/examples/word_count/word_count_query.rb
@@ -1,22 +1,23 @@
-require File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../../couchrest'
+require 'rubygems'
+require 'couchrest'
 
 couch = CouchRest.new("http://127.0.0.1:5984")
 db = couch.database('word-count-example')
 
 puts "Now that we've parsed all those books into CouchDB, the queries we can run are incredibly flexible."
 puts "\nThe simplest query we can run is the total word count for all words in all documents:"
-
-puts db.view('word_count/count').inspect
+puts "this will take a few minutes the first time. if it times out, just rerun this script in a few few minutes."
+puts db.view('word_count/words').inspect
 
 puts "\nWe can also narrow the query down to just one word, across all documents. Here is the count for 'flight' in all three books:"
 
 word = 'flight'
 params = {
   :startkey => [word], 
-  :endkey => [word,'Z']
+  :endkey => [word,{}]
   }
 
-puts db.view('word_count/count',params).inspect
+puts db.view('word_count/words',params).inspect
 
 puts "\nWe scope the query using startkey and endkey params to take advantage of CouchDB's collation ordering. Here are the params for the last query:"
 puts params.inspect
@@ -28,7 +29,7 @@ params = {
   :key => [word, title]
   }
   
-puts db.view('word_count/count',params).inspect
+puts db.view('word_count/words',params).inspect
 
 
 puts "\nHere are the params for 'flight' in the da-vinci book:"