diff --git a/code/libraries/language-processing/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/language/sentence/SentenceExtractor.java b/code/libraries/language-processing/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/language/sentence/SentenceExtractor.java
index 178cdee4..13ba2e76 100644
--- a/code/libraries/language-processing/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/language/sentence/SentenceExtractor.java
+++ b/code/libraries/language-processing/src/main/java/nu/marginalia/language/sentence/SentenceExtractor.java
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ public class SentenceExtractor {
             title = doc.getElementsByTag("h2").text();
         }
 
-        if (title.trim().length() < 3 && textSentences.length > 0) {
+        if (title.trim().length() < 3) {
             for (DocumentSentence textSentence : textSentences) {
                 if (textSentence.length() > 0) {
                     title = textSentence.originalSentence.toLowerCase();
@@ -138,10 +138,6 @@ public class SentenceExtractor {
 
         String textNormalizedSpaces = SentenceExtractorStringUtils.normalizeSpaces(text);
 
-        if (text.length() > MAX_TEXT_LENGTH) {
-            textNormalizedSpaces = textNormalizedSpaces.substring(0, MAX_TEXT_LENGTH);
-        }
-
         try {
             sentences = sentenceDetector.sentDetect(textNormalizedSpaces);
         }
@@ -221,7 +217,12 @@ public class SentenceExtractor {
     public String asText(Document dc) {
         String text = dc.getElementsByTag("body").text();
 
-        return text.substring(0, (int) (text.length()*0.95));
+        if (text.length() > MAX_TEXT_LENGTH) {
+            return text.substring(0, MAX_TEXT_LENGTH);
+        }
+        else {
+            return text.substring(0, (int) (text.length() * 0.95));
+        }
     }