diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/readability/cleaners.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/readability/cleaners.py
index fee5aec96f..cd52fe2580 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/readability/cleaners.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/readability/cleaners.py
@@ -1,7 +1,10 @@
 # strip out a set of nuisance html attributes that can mess up rendering in RSS feeds
 import re
 
-from lxml.html.clean import Cleaner
+try:
+    from lxml_html_clean import Cleaner
+except ImportError:
+    from lxml.html.clean import Cleaner
 
 bad_attrs = ['width', 'height', 'style', '[-a-z]*color', 'background[-a-z]*', 'on*']
 single_quoted = "'[^']+'"