From 853f63934fbe81bda841e34d07735cb8b90db5b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:26:03 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] ...

---
 src/calibre/library/comments.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/calibre/library/comments.py b/src/calibre/library/comments.py
index e78b815857..5d6c43f343 100644
--- a/src/calibre/library/comments.py
+++ b/src/calibre/library/comments.py
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ def comments_to_html(comments):
     if not isinstance(comments, unicode):
         comments = comments.decode(preferred_encoding, 'replace')
 
-    if comments.startswith('<'):
+    if comments.lstrip().startswith('<'):
         # Comment is already HTML do not mess with it
         return comments