diff --git a/src/calibre/web/fetch/simple.py b/src/calibre/web/fetch/simple.py
index b81e62c17a..7dc236c0d9 100644
--- a/src/calibre/web/fetch/simple.py
+++ b/src/calibre/web/fetch/simple.py
@@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ class RecursiveFetcher(object):
                         _fname.decode('latin1', 'replace')
                     _fname = _fname.encode('ascii', 'replace').replace('%', '').replace(os.sep, '')
                     _fname = ascii_filename(_fname)
-                    _fname = os.path.splitext(_fname)[0]+'.xhtml'
+                    _fname = os.path.splitext(_fname)[0][:120] + '.xhtml'
                     res = os.path.join(linkdiskpath, _fname)
                     self.downloaded_paths.append(res)
                     self.filemap[nurl] = res