diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 38916702..6ee840d8 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 - disable webp alpha output if all frames fill the canvas and are solid
 - add "compression" option to heifsave [lovell]
 - support webp and zstd compression in tiff
-- use "minimise" to close input early
+- loaders use "minimise" to close input files earlier
 - integrate support for oss-fuzz [omira-sch]
 
 9/7/19 started 8.8.2
diff --git a/libvips/foreign/foreign.c b/libvips/foreign/foreign.c
index 6dda604d..a48591ad 100644
--- a/libvips/foreign/foreign.c
+++ b/libvips/foreign/foreign.c
@@ -838,7 +838,7 @@ vips_foreign_load_start( VipsImage *out, void *a, void *b )
 
 		/* Load the image and check the result.
 		 *
-		 * ->header() read the header into @out, load has read the
+		 * ->header() read the header into @out, load will read the
 		 * image into @real. They must match exactly in size, bands,
 		 * format and coding for the copy to work.  
 		 *
diff --git a/libvips/foreign/jpeg2vips.c b/libvips/foreign/jpeg2vips.c
index e60dc31e..aacb6918 100644
--- a/libvips/foreign/jpeg2vips.c
+++ b/libvips/foreign/jpeg2vips.c
@@ -724,7 +724,7 @@ read_jpeg_generate( VipsRegion *or,
 		jpeg->y_pos += 1; 
 	}
 
-	/* Shut down the input file.
+	/* Shut down the input early if we can.
 	 */
 	if( jpeg->y_pos >= or->im->Ysize ) 
 		readjpeg_close_input( jpeg );
diff --git a/libvips/iofuncs/image.c b/libvips/iofuncs/image.c
index 15274c68..211c1727 100644
--- a/libvips/iofuncs/image.c
+++ b/libvips/iofuncs/image.c
@@ -451,11 +451,9 @@ vips_image_finalize( GObject *gobject )
 		VIPS_FREE( image->time );
 	}
 
-	/* Any image data?
+	/* Free attached memory.
 	 */
 	if( image->data ) {
-		/* Buffer image. Only free stuff we know we allocated.
-		 */
 		if( image->dtype == VIPS_IMAGE_SETBUF ) {
 			VIPS_DEBUG_MSG( "vips_image_finalize: "
 				"freeing buffer\n" );
@@ -466,7 +464,7 @@ vips_image_finalize( GObject *gobject )
 		image->data = NULL;
 	}
 
-	/* If this is a temp, delete it.
+	/* Delete associated files.
 	 */
 	vips_image_delete( image );
 
@@ -2082,9 +2080,8 @@ vips_image_new_from_memory_copy_cb( VipsImage *image, void *data_copy )
  * @format: image format
  *
  * Like vips_image_new_from_memory(), but VIPS will make a copy of the memory 
- * area. This
- * means more memory use and an extra copy operation, but is much simpler and
- * safer. 
+ * area. This means more memory use and an extra copy operation, but is much 
+ * simpler and safer. 
  *
  * See also: vips_image_new_from_memory().
  *