diff --git a/resources/templates/book_details.css b/resources/templates/book_details.css
index cea1de43a0..f30df0a424 100644
--- a/resources/templates/book_details.css
+++ b/resources/templates/book_details.css
@@ -1,14 +1,12 @@
-a { 
+a {
     text-decoration: none;
-    /* LINK_COLOR below will be replaced with the link color defined by the current color theme */
-    color: LINK_COLOR
 }
 
 a:hover {
     color: red
 }
 
-.comments { 
+.comments {
     margin-top: 0;
     padding-top: 0;
     text-indent: 0
@@ -19,12 +17,12 @@ a:hover {
     font-weight: bold
 }
 
-table.fields { 
+table.fields {
     margin-bottom: 0;
     padding-bottom: 0;
 }
 
-table.fields td { 
+table.fields td {
     vertical-align: top
 }
 
@@ -52,4 +50,3 @@ The HTML that this stylesheet applies to looks like this:
 <h3 class="comments-heading">Custom comments column heading</h3>
 <div id="_customcolname" class="comments">...</div>
 */
-
diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/book_details.py b/src/calibre/gui2/book_details.py
index a0bf58766d..4d8ff5dfe5 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/book_details.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/book_details.py
@@ -57,8 +57,6 @@ def css():
     global _css
     if _css is None:
         val = P('templates/book_details.css', data=True).decode('utf-8')
-        col = QApplication.instance().palette().color(QPalette.Link).name()
-        val = val.replace('LINK_COLOR', col)
         _css = re.sub(unicode_type(r'/\*.*?\*/'), '', val, flags=re.DOTALL)
     return _css