diff --git a/ebooks.py b/ebooks.py
index 01e8619..e8e7d68 100644
--- a/ebooks.py
+++ b/ebooks.py
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ def filter_tweet(tweet):
         for item in htmlsents:
             tweet.text = re.sub(item, entity(item), tweet.text)    
     tweet.text = re.sub(r'\xe9', 'e', tweet.text) #take out accented e
-#    tweet.text = re.sub(r'\&', '&', tweet.text) #clean up escaped html ampersands
     return tweet.text