diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/reader.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/reader.py
index d7cc5c9c17..1cda622cb5 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/reader.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/mobi/reader.py
@@ -159,6 +159,7 @@ class MobiReader(object):
self.processed_html = self.processed_html.decode(self.book_header.codec)
self.extract_images(processed_records, output_dir)
self.replace_page_breaks()
+ self.cleanup()
self.processed_html = re.compile('', re.IGNORECASE).sub(
'\n\n',
@@ -175,6 +176,9 @@ class MobiReader(object):
opf = self.create_opf(htmlfile)
opf.render(open(os.path.splitext(htmlfile)[0]+'.opf', 'wb'))
+ def cleanup(self):
+ self.processed_html = re.sub(r'', '', self.processed_html)
+
def create_opf(self, htmlfile):
mi = self.book_header.exth.mi
opf = OPFCreator(os.path.dirname(htmlfile), mi)