diff --git a/plugins/af_readability/init.php b/plugins/af_readability/init.php
index 807231390..48d9c2e37 100755
--- a/plugins/af_readability/init.php
+++ b/plugins/af_readability/init.php
@@ -142,8 +142,6 @@ class Af_Readability extends Plugin {
 	public function extract_content($url) {
 		global $fetch_effective_url;
 
-		if (!class_exists("Readability")) require_once(dirname(dirname(__DIR__)). "/lib/readability/Readability.php");
-
 		$tmp = fetch_file_contents([
 			"url" => $url,
 			"http_accept" => "text/*",
diff --git a/plugins/af_redditimgur/init.php b/plugins/af_redditimgur/init.php
index 8a662de28..735db1d64 100755
--- a/plugins/af_redditimgur/init.php
+++ b/plugins/af_redditimgur/init.php
@@ -557,8 +557,6 @@ class Af_RedditImgur extends Plugin {
 		if (!defined('NO_CURL') && function_exists("curl_init") && $this->host->get($this, "enable_readability") &&
 			mb_strlen(strip_tags($article["content"])) <= 150) {
 
-			if (!class_exists("Readability")) require_once(dirname(dirname(__DIR__)). "/lib/readability/Readability.php");
-
 			// do not try to embed posts linking back to other reddit posts
 			if ($url &&	strpos($url, "reddit.com") === FALSE) {