-If all your bookmarks disappeared in an upgrade from 2.10 to 2.11, you
-can import your old Elpher bookmarks into your Emacs bookmarks using
+On opening the bookmarks page, elpher will offer to import any legacy
+(2.x) bookmarks files into the new system. Once the import is complete,
+the original bookmarks file will have ``-legacy'' appended to it, so
+so that elpher knows not to import it again.
+
+If you have any other legacy bookmark files (besides the one in the
+original location, or specified in the @code{elpher-bookmarks-file}
+customization variable, which should be automatically detected), you can
+can import these using