diff --git a/resources/templates/html.css b/resources/templates/html.css
index e9b683ca34..79c80583bf 100644
--- a/resources/templates/html.css
+++ b/resources/templates/html.css
@@ -391,11 +391,6 @@ noembed, param, link {
    display: none;
 }
 
-/* Page breaks at body tags, to help out with LIT-generation */
-body {
-  page-break-before: always;
-}
-
 /* Explicit line-breaks are blocks, sure... */
 br {
   display: block;
diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plumber.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plumber.py
index 1d263eb762..9a0c3f3c7f 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plumber.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/conversion/plumber.py
@@ -984,7 +984,9 @@ OptionRecommendation(name='sr3_replace',
         flattener = CSSFlattener(fbase=fbase, fkey=fkey,
                 lineh=line_height,
                 untable=self.output_plugin.file_type in ('mobi','lit'),
-                unfloat=self.output_plugin.file_type in ('mobi', 'lit'))
+                unfloat=self.output_plugin.file_type in ('mobi', 'lit'),
+                page_break_on_body=self.output_plugin.file_type in ('mobi',
+                    'lit'))
         flattener(self.oeb, self.opts)
         self.opts.insert_blank_line = oibl
         self.opts.remove_paragraph_spacing = orps
diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/lit/output.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/lit/output.py
index 423fb9ce7c..0b07bc7705 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/lit/output.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/lit/output.py
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ class LITOutput(OutputFormatPlugin):
         from calibre.ebooks.oeb.transforms.htmltoc import HTMLTOCAdder
         from calibre.ebooks.lit.writer import LitWriter
         from calibre.ebooks.oeb.transforms.split import Split
-        split = Split(split_on_page_breaks=True, max_flow_size=0)
+        split = Split(split_on_page_breaks=True, max_flow_size=0,
+                remove_css_pagebreaks=False)
         split(self.oeb, self.opts)
 
 
diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/transforms/flatcss.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/transforms/flatcss.py
index db6bdf0a7a..368f5eb289 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/transforms/flatcss.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/transforms/flatcss.py
@@ -100,12 +100,13 @@ def FontMapper(sbase=None, dbase=None, dkey=None):
 
 class CSSFlattener(object):
     def __init__(self, fbase=None, fkey=None, lineh=None, unfloat=False,
-                 untable=False):
+                 untable=False, page_break_on_body=False):
         self.fbase = fbase
         self.fkey = fkey
         self.lineh = lineh
         self.unfloat = unfloat
         self.untable = untable
+        self.page_break_on_body = page_break_on_body
 
     @classmethod
     def config(cls, cfg):
@@ -139,6 +140,8 @@ class CSSFlattener(object):
             bs.append('margin-right : %fpt'%\
                     float(self.context.margin_right))
             bs.extend(['padding-left: 0pt', 'padding-right: 0pt'])
+            if self.page_break_on_body:
+                bs.extend(['page-break-before: always'])
             if self.context.change_justification != 'original':
                 bs.append('text-align: '+ self.context.change_justification)
             body.set('style', '; '.join(bs))
diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/transforms/split.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/transforms/split.py
index 4633131dc0..69de740ddc 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/transforms/split.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/transforms/split.py
@@ -38,11 +38,12 @@ class SplitError(ValueError):
 class Split(object):
 
     def __init__(self, split_on_page_breaks=True, page_breaks_xpath=None,
-            max_flow_size=0):
+            max_flow_size=0, remove_css_pagebreaks=True):
         self.split_on_page_breaks = split_on_page_breaks
         self.page_breaks_xpath = page_breaks_xpath
         self.max_flow_size = max_flow_size
         self.page_break_selectors = None
+        self.remove_css_pagebreaks = remove_css_pagebreaks
         if self.page_breaks_xpath is not None:
             self.page_break_selectors = [(XPath(self.page_breaks_xpath), False)]
 
@@ -83,12 +84,16 @@ class Split(object):
                     if before and before != 'avoid':
                         self.page_break_selectors.add((CSSSelector(rule.selectorText),
                             True))
+                        if self.remove_css_pagebreaks:
+                            rule.style.removeProperty('page-break-before')
                 except:
                     pass
                 try:
                     if after and after != 'avoid':
                         self.page_break_selectors.add((CSSSelector(rule.selectorText),
                             False))
+                        if self.remove_css_pagebreaks:
+                            rule.style.removeProperty('page-break-after')
                 except:
                     pass
         page_breaks = set([])