diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/base.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/base.py
index 8941f97304..23b01da1a2 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/base.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/oeb/base.py
@@ -904,6 +904,12 @@ class Manifest(object):
                 if key == 'lang' or key.endswith('}lang'):
                     body.attrib.pop(key)
 
+            # Remove invalid links as they casue overflow until the next link
+            # in rendering.
+            data = etree.tostring(data)
+            data = re.sub('<a[^/]*?/>', '', data)
+            data = etree.fromstring(data)
+
             return data
 
         def _parse_txt(self, data):