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-Weboob is a project which provides a core library, backends and applications.
+Weboob is a project which provides a core library, modules and applications.
 
 Overview
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@@ -7,18 +7,18 @@ The core library defines capabilities: features common to various websites. For
 example, http://www.youtube.com and http://www.dailymotion.com are both videos
 providers: Weboob defines the “ICapVideo” capability.
 
-Each backend interfaces a website and implements one or many of these
-capabilities. Backends can be configured, which means that the end-user can
+Each module interfaces a website and implements one or many of these
+capabilities. modules can be configured, which means that the end-user can
 provide personal information to access the underlaying website (login/password
 for example).
 
-Applications offer the ability to the end-user to work with many backends in
+Applications offer the ability to the end-user to work with many modules in
 parallel, in a multi-threaded way. For example, one could search a video on
 many providers websites. Applications are toolkit-agnostic. They can use Gtk,
 Qt or text-only, more adapted to reuse data through pipes.
 
 The core library provides base classes which help the developer to write
-backends and applications.
+modules and applications.
 
 Weboob is written in Python and is distributed under the AGPLv3+ license.