diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 18c19fa91..75be0b1bf 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 ===== 1.6.4 (Nov ??, 2012) =====
 * Supported encoding & language detection for *.doc (ms-word) files
+* Fixed crash in book info dialogs on some epubs (on Jelly Bean devices), code taken from https://gist.github.com/3424004
+* Fixed some problems in interaction with TTS+ plugin (by Greg Kochaniak)
 
 ===== 1.6.3 (Oct 22, 2012) =====
 * FBReader stores text position after setPageStart API method (useful for TTS plugin, code by Greg Kochaniak)
diff --git a/src/org/geometerplus/fbreader/network/HtmlUtil.java b/src/org/geometerplus/fbreader/network/HtmlUtil.java
index ff6b1b0b3..cd5794a69 100644
--- a/src/org/geometerplus/fbreader/network/HtmlUtil.java
+++ b/src/org/geometerplus/fbreader/network/HtmlUtil.java
@@ -20,38 +20,12 @@
 package org.geometerplus.fbreader.network;
 
 import java.util.HashMap;
-import java.util.regex.Matcher;
-import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
 import android.text.*;
 import android.text.style.URLSpan;
 
 public abstract class HtmlUtil {
-	private static final HashMap<String,Pattern> ourTagPatterns = new HashMap<String,Pattern>();
-
-	private static String removeNestedTags(String text, String tag) {
-		Pattern pattern = ourTagPatterns.get(tag);
-		if (pattern == null) {
-			pattern = Pattern.compile("(<" + tag + ">.*)</*" + tag + ">(.*</" + tag + ">)");
-		}
-		final Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(text);
-		while (matcher.find()) {
-			text = matcher.replaceAll("$1 $2");
-			matcher.reset(text);
-		}
-		return text;
-	}
-
-	private static String removeNestedTags(String text, String[] tags) {
-		for (String t : tags) {
-			text = removeNestedTags(text, t);
-		}
-		return text;
-	}
-
 	public static CharSequence getHtmlText(String text) {
-		// fixes an android bug (?): text layout fails on text with nested style tags
-		text = removeNestedTags(text, new String[] { "i", "b", "strong" });
 		final Spanned htmlText = Html.fromHtml(text);
 		if (htmlText.getSpans(0, htmlText.length(), URLSpan.class).length == 0) {
 			return htmlText;