I run a blog with over 1000 posts that are only separated by tags, so each post can have multiple of those.
As it is mostly short news, videos and galleries, the description consists of 3-5 lines of text. It's so short that I don't write a separate description for the preview text, meaning that the text on the post page is the same as the one on the listing pages.
Not only is that creating a lot of text on the first page, but also some sort duplicate content. This is why I came up with an idea to simply cut off the text automatically when it's being displayed on the listing pages.
For example:
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.
Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the
1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it
to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries,
but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remainin
would become something like:
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.
Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s ...
It would be cut at approximately 160 characters, similarly to the description meta tag. Do you think this is safe or even advisable to do or will it bother Google?
I don't want to write separate descriptions for such short texts, because it will just look like keyword stuffing up and down the page.