diff --git a/book/source/04-certificates.md b/book/source/04-certificates.md
index 889dd77..4ace432 100644
--- a/book/source/04-certificates.md
+++ b/book/source/04-certificates.md
@@ -281,8 +281,7 @@ Another way to think about this discussion is that different OpenPGP users may h
 
 As a general tendency, it is desirable for OpenPGP users to have the most complete possible view of all certificates that they interact with.
 
-However, there are contexts in which implementations may prefer to handle only a subset of the elements of a certificate. We discuss this in the section
-{ref}`cert-mini`.
+However, there are contexts in which it is preferable to only use a subset of the available elements of a certificate. We discuss this in the section {ref}`cert-mini`.
 
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