How long is 65,535 charactors?

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The MySQL TEXT datatype can hold 65,535 characters.  Not sure if that's going to be big enough?  I copied and pasted a bunch of text into a word document.  Without using any line breaks, I was able to fit approximately 3960 characters on one page.  That's Times New Roman 12pt font with 3/4 inch margins on all sides.

65,535 divided by 3960 is 16.5 pages of text.  That's quite a bit, and it certainly suited my needs.