diff --git a/imageio/imageio-webp/src/main/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/webp/LSBBitReader.java b/imageio/imageio-webp/src/main/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/webp/LSBBitReader.java
index 7f03b092..ab19f722 100644
--- a/imageio/imageio-webp/src/main/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/webp/LSBBitReader.java
+++ b/imageio/imageio-webp/src/main/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/webp/LSBBitReader.java
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ public final class LSBBitReader {
     public long readBits(int bits) throws IOException {
         long result = 0;
         for (int i = 0; i < bits; i++) {
-            result |= readBit() << i;
+            result |= (long) readBit() << i;
         }
 
         return result;
diff --git a/imageio/imageio-webp/src/main/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/webp/vp8/VP8Frame.java b/imageio/imageio-webp/src/main/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/webp/vp8/VP8Frame.java
index 72cb27ca..7ab7a3c5 100644
--- a/imageio/imageio-webp/src/main/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/webp/vp8/VP8Frame.java
+++ b/imageio/imageio-webp/src/main/java/com/twelvemonkeys/imageio/plugins/webp/vp8/VP8Frame.java
@@ -1034,9 +1034,8 @@ public final class VP8Frame {
         long partitionsStart = offset + first_partition_length_in_bytes;
         long partition = partitionsStart;
         multiTokenPartition = bc.readLiteral(2);
-//        logger.log("multi_token_partition: " + multiTokenPartition);
         int num_part = 1 << multiTokenPartition;
-//        logger.log("num_part: " + num_part);
+
         if (num_part > 1) {
             partition += 3 * (num_part - 1);
         }