diff --git a/misc/userscripts/readability b/misc/userscripts/readability
index 26a46b0ec..4cf987c70 100755
--- a/misc/userscripts/readability
+++ b/misc/userscripts/readability
@@ -21,16 +21,24 @@ tmpfile = os.path.join(
 if not os.path.exists(os.path.dirname(tmpfile)):
     os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(tmpfile))
 
-# styling for window size depended margin scaling and line height
-header = """<!DOCTYPE html>
+# Styling for dynamic window margin scaling and line height
+HEADER = """
+<!DOCTYPE html>
 <html>
 <head>
     <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
     <title>%s</title>
     <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
     <style type="text/css">
-       body{margin:40px auto;max-width:650px;line-height:1.4;padding:0 10px}
-       h1,h2,h3{line-height:1.2}
+        body {
+            margin: 40px auto;
+            max-width: 650px;
+            line-height: 1.4;
+            padding: 0 10px;
+        }
+        h1, h2, h3 {
+            line-height: 1.2;
+        }
     </style>
 </head>
 """
@@ -42,15 +50,15 @@ with codecs.open(os.environ['QUTE_HTML'], 'r', 'utf-8') as source:
         from breadability.readable import Article as reader
         doc = reader(data)
         title = doc._original_document.title
-        content = header % title + doc.readable + "</html>"
+        content = HEADER % title + doc.readable + "</html>"
     except ImportError:
         from readability import Document
         doc = Document(data)
         title = doc.title()
-        content = doc.summary().replace('<html>', header % title)
+        content = doc.summary().replace('<html>', HEADER % title)
 
     with codecs.open(tmpfile, 'w', 'utf-8') as target:
-        target.write(content)
+        target.write(content.lstrip())
 
     with open(os.environ['QUTE_FIFO'], 'w') as fifo:
         fifo.write('open -t %s' % tmpfile)
