diff --git a/src/libprs500/ebooks/BeautifulSoup.py b/src/libprs500/ebooks/BeautifulSoup.py
index b249d695dc..5f23ae5935 100644
--- a/src/libprs500/ebooks/BeautifulSoup.py
+++ b/src/libprs500/ebooks/BeautifulSoup.py
@@ -88,10 +88,7 @@ import codecs
 import types
 import re
 import libprs500.ebooks.sgmllib as sgmllib
-try:
-  from htmlentitydefs import name2codepoint
-except ImportError:
-  name2codepoint = {}
+from htmlentitydefs import name2codepoint
 
 #This hack makes Beautiful Soup able to parse XML with namespaces
 sgmllib.tagfind = re.compile('[a-zA-Z][-_.:a-zA-Z0-9]*')