diff --git a/manual/faq.rst b/manual/faq.rst
index 187c89d30e..56add66b55 100644
--- a/manual/faq.rst
+++ b/manual/faq.rst
@@ -1092,13 +1092,13 @@ a modern linux distro, you should have no problems installing calibre onto it.
 
 .. note::
     calibre needs GLIBC >= 2.13 and libstdc++ >= 6.0.17. If you have an older
-    server, you will either need to compile these from source, or use calibre 1.48
-    which requires only GLIBC >= 2.10. In addition, although the calibre
+    server, you will either need to compile these from source, or use calibre
+    1.48 which requires only GLIBC >= 2.10. In addition, although the calibre
     command line utilities do not need a running X server, some of them do
     require the X server libraries to be installed on your system. This is
-    because the use Qt, which links against these libraries. If you get an
-    ImportError about some Qt modules, you are likely missing some X
-    libraries.
+    because of Qt (which is used for various image processing tasks), and
+    links against these libraries. If you get an ImportError about some Qt
+    modules, you are likely missing some X libraries.
 
 You can run the calibre server via the command::