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 The best way to distribute large scientific datasets is via the Cloud, in [Cloud-Optimized formats](https://guide.cloudnativegeo.org/) [^1]. But often this data is stuck in legacy pre-Cloud file formats such as netCDF.
 
-**VirtualiZarr makes it easy to create "Virtual" Zarr stores, allowing access to data in legacy formats as if it were in the Cloud-Optimized [Zarr format](https://zarr.dev/), _without duplicating any data_.**
+**VirtualiZarr makes it easy to create "Virtual" Zarr stores, allowing performant access to legacy data as if it were in the Cloud-Optimized [Zarr format](https://zarr.dev/), _without duplicating any data_.**
 
-VirtualiZarr (pronounced like "virtualizer" but more piratey) grew out of [discussions](https://github.com/fsspec/kerchunk/issues/377) on the [kerchunk repository](https://github.com/fsspec/kerchunk), and is an attempt to provide the game-changing power of kerchunk in a zarr-native way, and with a familiar array-like API.
-
-You now have a choice between using VirtualiZarr and Kerchunk: VirtualiZarr provides [almost all the same features](https://virtualizarr.readthedocs.io/en/latest/faq.html#how-do-virtualizarr-and-kerchunk-compare) as Kerchunk.
-
-**Please see the [documentation](https://virtualizarr.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html)**
+Please see the [documentation](https://virtualizarr.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html).
 
 [^1]: [_Cloud-Native Repositories for Big Scientific Data_, Abernathey et. al., _Computing in Science & Engineering_.](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9354557)
 
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 * Commit the virtual references to storage either using the [Kerchunk references specification](https://fsspec.github.io/kerchunk/spec.html) or the [Icechunk transactional storage engine](https://icechunk.io/).
 * Users access the virtual dataset using [`xarray.open_dataset`](https://docs.xarray.dev/en/stable/generated/xarray.open_dataset.html#xarray.open_dataset).
 
+### VirtualiZarr vs Kerchunk?
+
+VirtualiZarr (pronounced like "virtualizer" but more piratey) grew out of [discussions](https://github.com/fsspec/kerchunk/issues/377) on the [kerchunk repository](https://github.com/fsspec/kerchunk), and is an attempt to provide the game-changing power of kerchunk in a zarr-native way, and with a familiar array-like API.
+
+You now have a choice between using VirtualiZarr and Kerchunk: VirtualiZarr provides [almost all the same features](https://virtualizarr.readthedocs.io/en/latest/faq.html#how-do-virtualizarr-and-kerchunk-compare) as Kerchunk.
+
 ### Development Status and Roadmap
 
 VirtualiZarr version 1 (mostly) achieves [feature parity](https://virtualizarr.readthedocs.io/en/latest/faq.html#how-do-virtualizarr-and-kerchunk-compare) with kerchunk's logic for combining datasets, providing an easier way to manipulate kerchunk references in memory and generate kerchunk reference files on disk.
@@ -66,5 +68,3 @@ This package was originally developed by [Tom Nicholas](https://github.com/TomNi
 ### Licence
 
 Apache 2.0
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-### References