diff --git a/readability/encoding.py b/readability/encoding.py
index fb4761df..71f9eb67 100644
--- a/readability/encoding.py
+++ b/readability/encoding.py
@@ -1,24 +1,25 @@
 import re
 import chardet
 
+
+charset_re = re.compile(r'<meta.*?charset=["\']*(.+?)["\'>]', flags=re.I)
+pragma_re = re.compile(r'<meta.*?content=["\']*;?charset=(.+?)["\'>]', flags=re.I)
+xml_re = re.compile(r'^<\?xml.*?encoding=["\']*(.+?)["\'>]')
+
+
 def get_encoding(page):
     # Regex for XML and HTML Meta charset declaration
-    charset_re = re.compile(r'<meta.*?charset=["\']*(.+?)["\'>]', flags=re.I)
-    pragma_re = re.compile(r'<meta.*?content=["\']*;?charset=(.+?)["\'>]', flags=re.I)
-    xml_re = re.compile(r'^<\?xml.*?encoding=["\']*(.+?)["\'>]')
-
     declared_encodings = (charset_re.findall(page) +
             pragma_re.findall(page) +
             xml_re.findall(page))
 
     # Try any declared encodings
-    if len(declared_encodings) > 0:
-        for declared_encoding in declared_encodings:
-            try:
-                page.decode(custom_decode(declared_encoding))
-                return custom_decode(declared_encoding)
-            except UnicodeDecodeError:
-                pass
+    for declared_encoding in reversed(declared_encodings):
+        try:
+            page.decode(custom_decode(declared_encoding))
+            return custom_decode(declared_encoding)
+        except UnicodeDecodeError:
+            pass
 
     # Fallback to chardet if declared encodings fail
     text = re.sub('</?[^>]*>\s*', ' ', page)
diff --git a/readability/htmls.py b/readability/htmls.py
index 15eada31..6dbff03c 100644
--- a/readability/htmls.py
+++ b/readability/htmls.py
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 from cleaners import normalize_spaces, clean_attributes
 from encoding import get_encoding
 from lxml.html import tostring
-import logging
 import lxml.html
 import re, sys
 
diff --git a/readability/readability.py b/readability/readability.py
index 9b393d08..70147688 100755
--- a/readability/readability.py
+++ b/readability/readability.py
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
+
 import logging
 import re
 import sys
+import six
 
 from collections import defaultdict
 from lxml.etree import tostring
@@ -105,6 +107,7 @@ def __init__(self, input, positive_keywords=None, negative_keywords=None, **opti
             - url: will allow adjusting links to be absolute
             - positive_keywords: the list of positive search patterns in classes and ids, for example: ["news-item", "block"]
             - negative_keywords: the list of negative search patterns in classes and ids, for example: ["mysidebar", "related", "ads"]
+            - unwanted_tags: strips given tags.
             Also positive_keywords and negative_keywords could be a regexp.
         """
         self.input = input
@@ -113,6 +116,12 @@ def __init__(self, input, positive_keywords=None, negative_keywords=None, **opti
         self.encoding = None
         self.positive_keywords = compile_pattern(positive_keywords)
         self.negative_keywords = compile_pattern(negative_keywords)
+        self.unwanted_tags = set(options.pop('unwanted_tags', []))
+
+    def strip_tags(self, elt):
+        for tag in self.unwanted_tags:
+            for elt in elt.xpath('.//%s' % tag):
+                elt.getparent().remove(elt)
 
     def _html(self, force=False):
         if force or self.html is None:
@@ -182,7 +191,11 @@ def summary(self, html_partial=False):
                         article = self.html.find('body')
                         if article is None:
                             article = self.html
+
+                self.strip_tags(article)
                 cleaned_article = self.sanitize(article, candidates)
+                assert isinstance(cleaned_article, six.string_types)
+
                 article_length = len(cleaned_article or '')
                 retry_length = self.options.get(
                     'retry_length',
@@ -556,6 +569,9 @@ def sanitize(self, node, candidates):
                 pass
 
         self.html = node
+        for elt in self.html.xpath('//p'):
+            elt.tail = '\n\n'
+
         return self.get_clean_html()
 
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index e7bb5884..993941e5 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
     mac_ver = platform.mac_ver()[0]
     mac_ver_no = int(mac_ver.split('.')[1])
     if mac_ver_no < 9:
-        print "Using lxml<2.4"
         lxml_requirement = "lxml<2.4"
 
 setup(
@@ -23,9 +22,9 @@
     url="http://github.com/buriy/python-readability",
     packages=['readability'],
     install_requires=[
-        "chardet",
+        "chardet", "cssselect", 'six',
         lxml_requirement
-        ],
+    ],
     classifiers=[
         "Environment :: Web Environment",
         "Intended Audience :: Developers",