diff --git a/src/calibre/__init__.py b/src/calibre/__init__.py
index 15bd54c80c..061d0712ce 100644
--- a/src/calibre/__init__.py
+++ b/src/calibre/__init__.py
@@ -440,6 +440,9 @@ xml_entity_to_unicode = partial(entity_to_unicode, result_exceptions = {
     '>' : '>',
     '&' : '&'})
 
+def replace_entities(raw):
+    return _ent_pat.sub(entity_to_unicode, raw)
+
 def prepare_string_for_xml(raw, attribute=False):
     raw = _ent_pat.sub(entity_to_unicode, raw)
     raw = raw.replace('&', '&amp;').replace('<', '&lt;').replace('>', '&gt;')
diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/reader.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/reader.py
index e18a95dd2d..2a35c7cb45 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/reader.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/reader.py
@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ except ImportError:
 
 from lxml import html, etree
 
-from calibre import xml_entity_to_unicode, CurrentDir, entity_to_unicode
+from calibre import xml_entity_to_unicode, CurrentDir, entity_to_unicode, \
+    replace_entities
 from calibre.utils.filenames import ascii_filename
 from calibre.utils.date import parse_date
 from calibre.ptempfile import TemporaryDirectory
@@ -70,7 +71,7 @@ class EXTHHeader(object):
             #else:
             #    print 'unknown record', id, repr(content)
         if title:
-            self.mi.title = title
+            self.mi.title = replace_entities(title)
 
     def process_metadata(self, id, content, codec):
         if id == 100: