diff --git a/book/src/paper-wallet/installation.md b/book/src/paper-wallet/installation.md
index e4fa15f79b..bd06c8590e 100644
--- a/book/src/paper-wallet/installation.md
+++ b/book/src/paper-wallet/installation.md
@@ -5,33 +5,47 @@ Follow this guide to setup Solana's key generation tool called `solana-keygen`
 After installation, ensure your version is `0.21.1` or higher by running `solana-keygen -V`
 {% endhint %}
 
-First, download the desired release tarball from GitHub. The examples below will
-retrieve the most recent release. If you would like to download a specific
-version instead replace `latest/download` with `download/VERSION` where VERSION
-is a tag name from https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/releases (ie. v0.21.1).
+## Download
+First, download the latest release tarball from GitHub.
 
-MacOS
+1. Setup download url
 
-`$ curl -L -sSf -o solana-release.tar.bz2 'https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/releases/latest/download/solana-release-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.bz2'`
+  ```bash
+  solana_downloads=https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/releases/latest/download
+  ```
 
-Linux
+2. Specify the download file based on your machine
 
-`$ curl -L -sSf -o solana-release.tar.bz2 'https://github.com/solana-labs/solana/releases/latest/download/solana-release-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.bz2'`
+  **MacOS**
+  ```bash
+  solana_release=solana-release-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.bz2
+  ```
 
+  **Linux**
+  ```bash
+  solana_release=solana-release-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.bz2
+  ```
+
+3. Download
+
+  ```bash
+  curl -L -sSf -o solana-release.tar.bz2 $solana_downloads/$solana_release
+  ```
+
+## Extract
 Next, extract the tarball
 ```bash
-$ tar xf solana-release.tar.bz2
+tar xf solana-release.tar.bz2
 ```
 
-Finally, `solana-keygen` can be run by
+## Add to "PATH"
+Now add the tool to your PATH environment variable with the following command
 ```bash
-$ solana-release/bin/solana-keygen
+export PATH="$(pwd)/solana-release/bin:${PATH}"
 ```
 
-If you would like to follow the remainder of these instructions without typing
-the leading path to `solana-keygen`, add it to your PATH environment variable
-with the following command
+## Check
+Finally, check that `solana-keygen` can be run by running
 ```bash
-$ export PATH="$(pwd)/solana-release/bin:${PATH}"
+solana-keygen -V
 ```
-This can be made permanent by adding it to your `~/.profile`
diff --git a/book/src/paper-wallet/keypair.md b/book/src/paper-wallet/keypair.md
index d19711adfa..21b0826bbf 100644
--- a/book/src/paper-wallet/keypair.md
+++ b/book/src/paper-wallet/keypair.md
@@ -23,13 +23,13 @@ solana-keygen new --no-outfile
 ```
 
 {% hint style="warning" %}
-If `--no-outfile` is **not** specified, the default behavior is to write the
+If the `--no-outfile` flag is **omitted**, the default behavior is to write the
 keypair to `~/.config/solana/id.json`
 {% endhint %}
 
 {% hint style="info" %}
 For added security, increase the seed phrase word count using the `--word-count`
-argumment
+argument
 {% endhint %}
 
 For full usage details run: