diff --git a/app/epub.py b/app/epub.py
index c9c6946..08bbad0 100644
--- a/app/epub.py
+++ b/app/epub.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ from ebooklib import epub
 
 from tempfile import SpooledTemporaryFile
 
-from .utils import Document_Tokens
+from .utils import Document_Tokens, strip_whitespace
 
 
 async def epub2html(file: SpooledTemporaryFile) -> str:
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ async def epub2html(file: SpooledTemporaryFile) -> str:
         # TODO: join tokens to HTML
         html_content = ""
         ...
-        return {**(tokens["metadata"]), "content": html_content}
+        return {**(tokens["metadata"]), "content": strip_whitespace(html_content)}
 
     except Exception as e:
         raise HTTPException(
diff --git a/app/fb2.py b/app/fb2.py
index 2a2e49f..1771147 100644
--- a/app/fb2.py
+++ b/app/fb2.py
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ from xml.etree.ElementTree import Element
 from typing import Optional, Union
 from fastapi import HTTPException
 
-from .utils import Document_Tokens
+from .utils import Document_Tokens, strip_whitespace
 
 
 namespaces = {
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ async def fb22html(file: SpooledTemporaryFile) -> dict[str, str]:
         set_cover(tokens)
         html_content = fb2body2html(tokens)
 
-        return {**(tokens["metadata"]), "content": html_content}
+        return {**(tokens["metadata"]), "content": strip_whitespace(html_content)}
 
     except Exception as e:
         raise HTTPException(
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ def fb22tokens(file: SpooledTemporaryFile) -> Document_Tokens:
         metadata["title"] = book_info.find("./book-title", namespaces).text
         metadata["author"] = get_author(book_info.find("./author", namespaces))
         metadata["cover"] = get_cover(book_info.find("./coverpage", namespaces))
-        if not 'cover' in metadata.keys():
+        if not "cover" in metadata.keys():
             metadata.pop("cover")
 
         if len(metadata.keys()):
diff --git a/app/utils.py b/app/utils.py
index b277cca..92fcd74 100644
--- a/app/utils.py
+++ b/app/utils.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 from typing import Union, Optional
 from pydantic import BaseModel
+import re
 
 Document_Tokens = dict[str, Union[str, dict[str, str]]]
 
@@ -9,3 +10,7 @@ class HTMLBook(BaseModel):
     author: str
     cover: Optional[str]
     content: str
+
+
+def strip_whitespace(s: bytes) -> str:
+    return re.sub("\s+(?=<)", "", s.decode()).strip()