diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index a7311df..bff0640 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ Changes in PDFio
 v1.6.2 - YYYY-MM-DD
 -------------------
 
+- Increased the maximum length of a single string to 128k (Issue #146)
 - Fixed an error propagation bug when reading too-long values (Issue #146)
 
 
diff --git a/pdfio-private.h b/pdfio-private.h
index 7ce2e26..e4d8f89 100644
--- a/pdfio-private.h
+++ b/pdfio-private.h
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
 //
 
 #  define PDFIO_MAX_DEPTH	32	// Maximum nesting depth for values
-#  define PDFIO_MAX_STRING	65536	// Maximum length of string
+#  define PDFIO_MAX_STRING	131072	// Maximum length of string
 
 typedef void (*_pdfio_extfree_t)(void *);
 					// Extension data free function