diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 35325bb..e14c0fa 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -35,29 +35,75 @@ wget -nv https://bit.ly/node-installer -O - ./node-installer.sh; bash ./node-ins
 
 ### Choosing a specific version
 
+**Latest**
+
 ```bash
-echo "Current node.js version is $(curl -fsSL https://nodejs.org/dist/index.tab | head -2 | tail -1 | cut -f 1)"
+export NODEJS_VER=""
+```
+
+**Exact**
+
+```bash
+export NODEJS_VER="v10.2.1"
+```
+
+**Latest of vX.Y.Z**
+
+```bash
+export NODEJS_VER="v8.1"
+```
+
+**Latest of vX.YY.Z**
+
+```bash
+# latest of v8.11.x
+export NODEJS_VER="v8.11"
+```
+
+**Latest of vX.Y**
+
+```bash
+export NODEJS_VER="v10"
+```
+
+Fun FYI, here's how the latest version is determined:
+
+```bash
+NODEJS_VER=$(curl -fsSL https://nodejs.org/dist/index.tab | tail -n +2 | cut -f 1 | head -1 )
+echo "The current node.js version is $NODEJS_VER"
 ```
 
 ```bash
-# To install a specific version rather than defaulting to latest
-# latest version at time of writing are v8.11.1 and v10.1.0
-export NODEJS_VER="v10.1.0"
+BASE_VER="v10\\."
+NODEJS_VER=$(curl -fsSL https://nodejs.org/dist/index.tab | tail -n +2 | cut -f 1 | grep $BASE_VER | head -1 )
+echo "Latest node.js $BASE_VER is $NODEJS_VER"
 ```
 
 ### Choosing an install location
 
 Just set BOTH `NODE_PATH` and `NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX`.
 The install path will be the preceding `lib/node_modules`
-(which you usually want to be the same as `NPM_CONFIG_PREFIIX` anyway).
+(which you usually want to be the same as `NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX` anyway).
 
 ```bash
-export NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX=/tmp/user/local
-export NODE_PATH=/tmp/user/local/lib/node_modules
+export NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX=/tmp/usr/local
+export NODE_PATH=/tmp/usr/local/lib/node_modules
+```
 
+A more realistic example for a self-contained node app:
+```bash
+export NPM_CONFIG_PREFIX=/opt/my-app
+export NODE_PATH=/opt/my-app/lib/node_modules
+```
+
+
+```bash
 curl -fsSL https://bit.ly/node-installer -o ./node-installer.sh; bash ./node-installer.sh --dev-deps
+```
 
-# If you want to add the install location to your PATH
+If you want to add the install location to your `PATH`:
+
+```bash
 PATH=$PATH:/tmp/user/local/bin
 ```
 
@@ -101,7 +147,7 @@ wget -nv https://bit.ly/node-installer -O /tmp/node-installer.sh; bash /tmp/node
 
 ### Other things you should know
 
-This is what gets installed:
+This is what gets installed with the dev dependencies:
 
 * rsync
 * curl
diff --git a/install.sh b/install.sh
index 0c613c7..9db3a02 100644
--- a/install.sh
+++ b/install.sh
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 
 # Not every platform has or needs sudo, gotta save them O(1)s...
 sudo_cmd=""
-((EUID)) && [[ -z "$ANDROID_ROOT" ]] && sudo_cmd="sudo"
+((EUID)) && [[ -z "${ANDROID_ROOT:-}" ]] && sudo_cmd="sudo"
 
 deps_flag="$1"
 set -e
@@ -247,12 +247,23 @@ if [ -n "${NODEJS_VER:-}" ]; then
   fi
 fi
 
-if [ -z "${NODEJS_VER:-}" ]; then
+NODEJS_VER="${NODEJS_VER:-v}" # Search for 'v' at the least
+# sort -rV  # will sort by version number, but it appears these are already sorted
+# tail -n +2   # starts at line two (1-indexed) and all after (omits the csv header with 'version' and such)
+# cut -f 1  # gets only the first column
+# head -n 1 # gets only the most recent version
+my_char="."
+my_count=$(awk -F"${my_char}" '{print NF-1}' <<< "${NODEJS_VER}")
+# get the latest version if partial
+if [ $my_count -ne 2 ]; then
+  if [ "$NODEJS_VER" != "v" ]; then
+    NODEJS_VER="$NODEJS_VER\\."
+  fi
   if [ -n "$(type -p curl)" ]; then
-    NODEJS_VER=$(curl -fsL "$NODEJS_BASE_URL/dist/index.tab" | head -n 2 | tail -1 | cut -f 1) \
+    NODEJS_VER=$(curl -fsL "$NODEJS_BASE_URL/dist/index.tab" | tail -n +2 | cut -f 1 | grep "^$NODEJS_VER" | head -n 1) \
       || echo 'error automatically determining current node.js version'
   elif [ -n "$(type -p wget)" ]; then
-    NODEJS_VER=$(wget --quiet "$NODEJS_BASE_URL/dist/index.tab" -O - | head -n 2 | tail -1 | cut -f 1) \
+    NODEJS_VER=$(wget --quiet "$NODEJS_BASE_URL/dist/index.tab" -O - | tail -n +2 | cut -f 1 | grep "^$NODEJS_VER" | head -n 1) \
       || echo 'error automatically determining current node.js version'
   else
     echo "Found neither 'curl' nor 'wget'. Can't Continue."
@@ -286,7 +297,7 @@ if [ -e "$node_install_path/bin/node" ]; then
     echo ""
     echo "node.js is already installed as node $($node_install_path/bin/node -v | grep v)"
     echo ""
-    echo "to reinstall please first run: rm $node_install_path/bin/node"
+    echo "to reinstall as ${NODEJS_VER} please first run: rm $node_install_path/bin/node"
     echo ""
   fi
 
@@ -297,6 +308,7 @@ if [ -n "${NODEJS_VER}" ]; then
   bash "$my_tmp/${INSTALL_FILE}" "${NODEJS_VER}"
 fi
 
+mkdir -p $node_install_path/lib/node_modules || $sudo_cmd mkdir -p $node_install_path/lib/node_modules
 chown -R $(whoami) $node_install_path/lib/node_modules || $sudo_cmd chown -R $(whoami) $node_install_path/lib/node_modules
 
 echo ""