diff --git a/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/html/convert_from.py b/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/html/convert_from.py
index 20527b059b..3da1aaf086 100644
--- a/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/html/convert_from.py
+++ b/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/html/convert_from.py
@@ -50,10 +50,10 @@ class HTMLConverter(object):
     SELECTOR_PAT   = re.compile(r"([A-Za-z0-9\-\_\:\.]+[A-Za-z0-9\-\_\:\.\s\,]*)\s*\{([^\}]*)\}")
     PAGE_BREAK_PAT = re.compile(r'page-break-(?:after|before)\s*:\s*(\w+)', re.IGNORECASE)
     IGNORED_TAGS   = (Comment, Declaration, ProcessingInstruction)
-    replaced_entities = [ 'amp', 'lt', 'gt' , 'ldquo', 'rdquo', 'lsquo', 'rsquo' ]
+    replaced_entities = [ 'amp', 'lt', 'gt' , 'ldquo', 'rdquo', 'lsquo', 'rsquo']
     patterns = [ re.compile('&'+i+';') for i in replaced_entities ]
     targets  = [ unichr(name2codepoint[i]) for i in replaced_entities ]
-    ENTITY_RULES = zip(patterns, targets)
+    ENTITY_RULES = zip(patterns, targets) + [(re.compile('''), "'")]
     
      
     MARKUP_MASSAGE   = [
diff --git a/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/web/__init__.py b/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/web/__init__.py
index fd5f9a4c8d..5523ac8b1a 100644
--- a/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/web/__init__.py
+++ b/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/web/__init__.py
@@ -16,14 +16,14 @@
 import os, time, calendar, operator
 
 from libprs500 import iswindows
-from libprs500.ebooks.BeautifulSoup import BeautifulStoneSoup, BeautifulSoup
+from libprs500.ebooks.BeautifulSoup import BeautifulStoneSoup
 
 def parse_feeds(feeds, browser, print_version, max_articles_per_feed=10):
     articles = {}
     for title, url in feeds:
         src = browser.open(url).read()
         articles[title] = []
-        soup = BeautifulStoneSoup(src, convertEntities=BeautifulSoup.HTML_ENTITIES)
+        soup = BeautifulStoneSoup(src)
         for item in soup.findAll('item'):
             try:
                 pubdate = item.find('pubdate').string