diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 lens-simple
 ==================
 
-`Lens-Simple` makes it easier to use the combinators and elementary lenses and traversals from the original 'van Laarhoven' lens library: Russell O'Connor's [`lens-family`](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/lens-family-core) package. Despite its simplicity, this package has a rather complicated structure. The `zoom` preferred here is from `Lens.Family.State.Strict`. `makeLenses` and `makeTraversals` & co are re-exported from Dan Burton's  [`lens-family-th`](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/lens-family-th).
+`Lens-Simple` makes it easier to use the combinators from the original van Laarhoven-O'Connor lens library: Russell O'Connor's [`lens-family`](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/lens-family-core) package. For various reasons, O'Connor's package has a rather complicated structure; our purpose here is to ignore all this. The `zoom` preferred here is from `Lens.Family.State.Strict`. `makeLenses` and `makeTraversals` & co are re-exported from Dan Burton's  [`lens-family-th`](http://hackage.haskell.org/package/lens-family-th).  
 
diff --git a/lens-simple.cabal b/lens-simple.cabal
--- a/lens-simple.cabal
+++ b/lens-simple.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name:                lens-simple
-version:             0.1.0.8
+version:             0.1.0.9
 synopsis:            simplified import of elementary lens-family combinators
 
 description:         This module, <http://hackage.haskell.org/package/lens-simple/docs/Lens-Simple.html Lens.Simple>, 
@@ -61,8 +61,8 @@
                      <http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pipes-bytestring pipes-bytestring> 
                      and <http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pipes-group pipes-group>. 
                      .
-                     @Lens.Simple@ also re-exports @makeLenses@ and 
-                     other convenient TH incantations from Dan Burton's associated 
+                     @Lens.Simple@ also re-exports convenient TH incantations like 
+                     @makeLenses@ from Dan Burton's associated 
                      <http://hackage.haskell.org/package/lens-family-th lens-family-th>. 
                      .
                      
@@ -83,9 +83,9 @@
 library
   exposed-modules:     Lens.Simple
   build-depends:       base == 4.* 
-                       , transformers >= 0.2.0 && < 5
+                       , transformers >= 0.2.0 && < 6
                        , mtl >=2.1 && <2.3
                        , lens-family == 1.2.*
                        , lens-family-core == 1.2.*
-                       , lens-family-th == 0.4.*
+                       , lens-family-th < 0.6
   default-language:    Haskell2010