diff --git a/internal/reader/sanitizer/truncate.go b/internal/reader/sanitizer/truncate.go
index c6afdd75..a2616ae8 100644
--- a/internal/reader/sanitizer/truncate.go
+++ b/internal/reader/sanitizer/truncate.go
@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@ import "strings"
 
 func TruncateHTML(input string, max int) string {
 	text := StripTags(input)
-	text = strings.ReplaceAll(text, "\n", " ")
-	text = strings.ReplaceAll(text, "\t", " ")
 
 	// Collapse multiple spaces into a single space
 	text = strings.Join(strings.Fields(text), " ")