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 # Golang Kinesis Consumer
 
-Kinesis consumer applications written in Go
+Kinesis consumer applications written in Go. This library is intended to be a lightweight wrapper around the Kinesis API to scan records, set checkpoints, and gracefully recover from network errors.
 
-## Note:
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-> With the new release of Kinesis Firehose I'd recommend using the [kinesis to firehose](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/firehose/latest/dev/writing-with-kinesis-streams.html) functionality for writing data directly to S3, Redshift, or Elasticsearch.
+** NOTE ** With the release of [Kinesis to Firehose](http://docs.aws.amazon.com/firehose/latest/dev/writing-with-kinesis-streams.html) it's possible to archive data directly to S3, Redshift, or Elasticsearch without running a consumer application. 
 
 ## Installation