diff --git a/src/bggpipe/models.py b/src/bggpipe/models.py
index 5324cb7..d41ad69 100644
--- a/src/bggpipe/models.py
+++ b/src/bggpipe/models.py
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
+import html
 import warnings
 import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET  # parsing itself goes via defusedxml
 from dataclasses import dataclass, field
@@ -228,7 +229,12 @@ def parse_things_full(xml_text: str) -> list[dict]:
                 "type": item.get("type", "boardgame"),
                 "name": name.get("value", "") if name is not None else "",
                 "year": _attr_int(item.find("yearpublished")),
-                "description": (item.findtext("description") or "").strip(),
+                # BGG serves descriptions with entities still encoded
+                # (’ etc): decode ONCE here so every consumer —
+                # app, export, games.json — gets plain text
+                "description": html.unescape(
+                    (item.findtext("description") or "").strip()
+                ),
                 "image": (item.findtext("image") or "").strip(),
                 "thumbnail": (item.findtext("thumbnail") or "").strip(),
                 "min_players": _attr_int(item.find("minplayers")),
diff --git a/src/bggpipe/static/app.css b/src/bggpipe/static/app.css
index 4ecd4ce..4d3d4c3 100644
--- a/src/bggpipe/static/app.css
+++ b/src/bggpipe/static/app.css
@@ -528,11 +528,16 @@ a.game:focus-visible { outline: 3px solid var(--focus); outline-offset: 2px; }
   flex-wrap: wrap;
 }
 #pickfooter .edithint { flex: 1 1 100%; }
-.editform select {
+/* selects join the design system EVERYWHERE — the third time a native
+   dropdown showed up in a card, the lesson finally took: style the
+   element, not each container it appears in */
+select {
   font: inherit; font-size: .85rem; color: var(--ink);
   border: 2px solid var(--board-edge); border-radius: var(--radius);
   padding: .25rem .45rem; background: #fff; max-width: 24rem;
 }
+#storedform { display: flex; gap: .5rem; align-items: center; }
+#storedform select { flex: 1 1 auto; }
 
 .empty {
   background: var(--board); border: 2px dashed var(--board-edge);
diff --git a/src/bggpipe/templates/pages/librarygame.html b/src/bggpipe/templates/pages/librarygame.html
index ea0c53f..823d7e1 100644
--- a/src/bggpipe/templates/pages/librarygame.html
+++ b/src/bggpipe/templates/pages/librarygame.html
@@ -8,6 +8,14 @@
 "use strict";
 const KEY = decodeURIComponent(location.pathname.replace(/^\/library\/game\//, ""));
 
+// entries enriched before descriptions were decoded at parse still hold
+// ’-style entities: decode once before escaping for display
+function decodeEntities(s) {
+  const ta = document.createElement("textarea");
+  ta.innerHTML = s;
+  return ta.value;
+}
+
 function chips(label, values) {
   if (!values || !values.length) return "";
   return `<div class="factrow"><b>${esc(label)}</b>
@@ -228,7 +236,7 @@ function render(g) {
     ${contains}
     ${photos}
     ${g.description && !local ? `<h2>About</h2>
-      <div class="card prose"><p class="gdesc">${esc(g.description)}</p></div>` : ""}`;
+      <div class="card prose"><p class="gdesc">${esc(decodeEntities(g.description))}</p></div>` : ""}`;
   wireLocal(g);
   wireStored(g);
 }