diff --git a/calibre-plugin/plugin-defaults.ini b/calibre-plugin/plugin-defaults.ini
index e9b516e4..68da9bdf 100644
--- a/calibre-plugin/plugin-defaults.ini
+++ b/calibre-plugin/plugin-defaults.ini
@@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ conditionals_use_lists:true
 ## they aren't intended by the author during document upload and not
 ## all authors know how/take the time to fix it.  This feature removes
 ## all "empty" <p> tags, ie, those containing only whitespace or <br>
-## tags.  Literally: <p[^>]*>\s*(<br/>)*\s*</p>
+## tags.
 #remove_empty_p: false
 
 ## If you have the Generate Cover plugin installed, you can use the
diff --git a/fanficfare/adapters/base_adapter.py b/fanficfare/adapters/base_adapter.py
index 09f11bb1..54f1e1be 100644
--- a/fanficfare/adapters/base_adapter.py
+++ b/fanficfare/adapters/base_adapter.py
@@ -880,7 +880,7 @@ class BaseSiteAdapter(Requestable):
             # Remove <p> tags that contain only whitespace and/or <br>
             # tags.  Generally for AO3/OTW because their document
             # converter tends to add them where not intended.
-            retval = re.sub(r"<p[^>]*>\s*(<br/>)*\s*</p>","",retval)
+            retval = re.sub(r"<p[^>]*>\s*(\s*<br ?/?>\s*)*\s*</p>","",retval)
 
         return retval
 
diff --git a/fanficfare/defaults.ini b/fanficfare/defaults.ini
index 37cfc508..970348d6 100644
--- a/fanficfare/defaults.ini
+++ b/fanficfare/defaults.ini
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ conditionals_use_lists:true
 ## they aren't intended by the author during document upload and not
 ## all authors know how/take the time to fix it.  This feature removes
 ## all "empty" <p> tags, ie, those containing only whitespace or <br>
-## tags.  Literally: <p[^>]*>\s*(<br/>)*\s*</p>
+## tags.
 #remove_empty_p: false
 
 ## If set false, the summary will have all html stripped.