diff --git a/docs/src/concepts/futures.md b/docs/src/concepts/futures.md
index 621bbee..f789182 100644
--- a/docs/src/concepts/futures.md
+++ b/docs/src/concepts/futures.md
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ Note how we avoided any word like *"thread"*, but instead opted for "computation
 
 To sum up: Rust gives us the ability to safely abstract over important properties of concurrent programs, their data sharing. It does so in a very lightweight fashion; the language itself only knows about the two markers `Send` and `Sync` and helps us a little by deriving them itself, when possible. The rest is a library concern.
 
+[rust-book-sync]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/book/ch16-04-extensible-concurrency-sync-and-send.html
+
 ## An easy view of computation
 
 While computation is a subject to write a whole [book](https://computationbook.com/) about, a very simplified view suffices for us:
@@ -28,7 +30,7 @@ While computation is a subject to write a whole [book](https://computationbook.c
 
 ## Deferring computation
 
-As mentioned above `Send` and `Sync` are about data. But programs are not only about data, they also talk about *computing* the data. And that's what \[Futures\][futures] do. We are going to have a close look at how that works in the next chapter. Let's look at what Futures allow us to express, in English. Futures go from this plan:
+As mentioned above `Send` and `Sync` are about data. But programs are not only about data, they also talk about *computing* the data. And that's what [`Futures`][futures] do. We are going to have a close look at how that works in the next chapter. Let's look at what Futures allow us to express, in English. Futures go from this plan:
 
 - Do X
 - If X succeeds, do Y
@@ -40,6 +42,8 @@ towards
 
 Remember the talk about "deferred computation" in the intro? That's all it is. Instead of telling the computer what to execute and decide upon *now*, you tell it what to start doing and how to react on potential events the... well... `Future`.
 
+[futures]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/future/trait.Future.html
+
 ## Orienting towards the beginning
 
 Let's have a look at a simple function, specifically the return value:
@@ -77,8 +81,8 @@ What we are searching is something that represents ongoing work towards a result
 Ignore `Pin` and `Context` for now, you don't need them for high-level understanding. Looking at it closely, we see the following: it is generic over the `Output`. It provides a function called `poll`, which allows us to check on the state of the current computation.
 Every call to `poll()` can result in one of these two cases:
 
-1. The future is done, `poll` will return `[Poll::Ready](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/task/enum.Poll.html#variant.Ready)`
-2. The future has not finished executing, it will return `[Poll::Pending](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/task/enum.Poll.html#variant.Pending)`
+1. The future is done, `poll` will return [`Poll::Ready`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/task/enum.Poll.html#variant.Ready)
+2. The future has not finished executing, it will return [`Poll::Pending`](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/task/enum.Poll.html#variant.Pending)
 
 This allows us to externally check if a `Future` has finished doing its work, or is finally done and can give us the value. The most simple way (but not efficient) would be to just constantly poll futures in a loop. There's optimisations here, and this is what a good runtime is does for you.
 Note that calling `poll` after case 1 happened may result in confusing behaviour. See the [futures-docs](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/future/trait.Future.html) for details.
diff --git a/docs/src/concepts/tasks.md b/docs/src/concepts/tasks.md
index 2857046..090b383 100644
--- a/docs/src/concepts/tasks.md
+++ b/docs/src/concepts/tasks.md
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ async fn read_file(path: &str) -> Result<String, io::Error> {
 }
 
 fn main() {
-    let task = task::spawn(async {
+    let reader_task = task::spawn(async {
         let result = read_file("data.csv");
         match result {
             Ok(s) => println!("{}", s),
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ fn main() {
         }
     });
     println!("Started task!");
-    task::block_on(task);
+    task::block_on(reader_task);
     println!("Stopped task!");
 }
 ```
diff --git a/docs/src/overview/std-and-library-futures.md b/docs/src/overview/std-and-library-futures.md
index 98cdfb4..94b360b 100644
--- a/docs/src/overview/std-and-library-futures.md
+++ b/docs/src/overview/std-and-library-futures.md
@@ -6,11 +6,11 @@ Rust has two kinds of types commonly referred to as `Future`:
 - the first is `std::future::Future` from Rust’s [standard library](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/future/trait.Future.html). 
 - the second is `futures::future::Future` from the [futures-rs crate](https://docs.rs/futures-preview/0.3.0-alpha.17/futures/prelude/trait.Future.html), currently released as `futures-preview`. 
 
-The future defined in the [futures-rs](https://docs.rs/futures-preview/0.3.0-alpha.17/futures/prelude/trait.Future.html) crate was the original implementation of the type. To enable the `async/await` syntax, the core Future trait was moved into Rust’s standard library and became `std::future::Future`. In some sense, the `std``::future::Future` can be seen as a minimal subset of `futures::future::Future`.
+The future defined in the [futures-rs](https://docs.rs/futures-preview/0.3.0-alpha.17/futures/prelude/trait.Future.html) crate was the original implementation of the type. To enable the `async/await` syntax, the core Future trait was moved into Rust’s standard library and became `std::future::Future`. In some sense, the `std::future::Future` can be seen as a minimal subset of `futures::future::Future`.
 
-It is critical to understand the difference between `std::future::Future` and `futures::future::Future`, and the approach that `async-std` takes towards them. In itself, `std::future::Future` is not something you want to interact with as a user—except by calling `.await` on it. The inner workings of `std::future::Future` are mostly of interest to people implementing `Future`. Make no mistake—this is very useful! Most of the functionality that used to be defined on `Future` itself has been moved to an extension trait called `[FuturesExt](https://docs.rs/futures-preview/0.3.0-alpha.17/futures/future/trait.FutureExt.html)`. From this information, you might be able to infer that the `futures` library serves as an extension to the core Rust async features.
+It is critical to understand the difference between `std::future::Future` and `futures::future::Future`, and the approach that `async-std` takes towards them. In itself, `std::future::Future` is not something you want to interact with as a user—except by calling `.await` on it. The inner workings of `std::future::Future` are mostly of interest to people implementing `Future`. Make no mistake—this is very useful! Most of the functionality that used to be defined on `Future` itself has been moved to an extension trait called [`FuturesExt`](https://docs.rs/futures-preview/0.3.0-alpha.17/futures/future/trait.FutureExt.html). From this information, you might be able to infer that the `futures` library serves as an extension to the core Rust async features.
 
-In the same tradition as `futures`, `async-std` re-exports the core `std::future::``Future` type. You can get actively opt into the extensions provided by the `futures-preview` crate by adding it your `Cargo.toml` and importing `FuturesExt`.
+In the same tradition as `futures`, `async-std` re-exports the core `std::future::Future` type. You can get actively opt into the extensions provided by the `futures-preview` crate by adding it your `Cargo.toml` and importing `FuturesExt`.
 
 ## Interfaces and Stability
 
@@ -24,4 +24,4 @@ There’s some support functions that we see as important for working with futur
 
 ## Streams and Read/Write/Seek/BufRead traits
 
-Due to limitations of the Rust compiler, those are currently implemented in `async_std`, but cannot be implemented by users themselves.
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+Due to limitations of the Rust compiler, those are currently implemented in `async_std`, but cannot be implemented by users themselves.
diff --git a/docs/src/tutorial/receiving_messages.md b/docs/src/tutorial/receiving_messages.md
index a60fe9f..1c8552f 100644
--- a/docs/src/tutorial/receiving_messages.md
+++ b/docs/src/tutorial/receiving_messages.md
@@ -89,4 +89,4 @@ where
         }
     })
 }
-```s
\ No newline at end of file
+```