From 051d9e5d3568c96271af7483b307d0bc81691b25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 20:43:41 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Fix #1569388 [tags from s to z can not be
 saved](https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/1569388)

---
 src/calibre/gui2/metadata/basic_widgets.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/src/calibre/gui2/metadata/basic_widgets.py b/src/calibre/gui2/metadata/basic_widgets.py
index 6ebc5851e6..5d8331cfcf 100644
--- a/src/calibre/gui2/metadata/basic_widgets.py
+++ b/src/calibre/gui2/metadata/basic_widgets.py
@@ -1286,6 +1286,7 @@ class TagsEdit(EditWithComplete, ToMetadataMixin):  # {{{
 
     def __init__(self, parent):
         EditWithComplete.__init__(self, parent)
+        self.lineEdit().setMaxLength(65536)  # see https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1569388
         self.books_to_refresh = set([])
         self.setToolTip(self.TOOLTIP)
         self.setWhatsThis(self.TOOLTIP)