I bet a kickstarter/indiegogo crowdfunding campaign for a convoy photo book would be successful.
If you or any of your acquaintances think this is something worth doing, I’m a graphic designer and can help put such a book together. Feel free to reach out.
If it's all that can be done, fine. I don't use QR codes myself, but I do have a phone and I can learn. Will probably want to download soft copies and stash, so as not to risk losing the photos if any hostile agencies ever attack their online home.
Welcome to the club D.J. - I'm 80 and dine know how to access those codes either but like you will now try to learn how. As a personal friend of Dnonna since I met her on Wellingron St., I follow each and every word she posts or prints.
Also an elder (60+) I'm expecting it will be easy enough to do this, recognize the problem of images that work on a screen not being good quality for print...but also loathe smartphones and a bit *shrug*sigh* every time I hit another reason I can't take a sledgehammer to the one I have.
Hi Donna ~ just tried the sample one and it was immediate, non-glitchy, and the pix were fantastic. So, 100% on using it.
This is from someone with a built-in aversion to QR codes (for reasons! I still carry a Sharpie in my purse, to alter codes should they ever again appear at the entrances of shopping malls.
Hi, Claudio. The QR code is simply a pointer to a page that exists on the Internet. To my knowledge there is no way for anyone to be tracked or identified. Nor is there any way for anyone - especially me - to make money if someone uses these codes.
Hi Donna - I think this is actually an improvement over having photos in a book - as you certainly will have many more than what you could practically put in a book, especially yours (and it will be mine when available!). I find that I usually have my phone close at hand when reading anyway - (did government tyranny wreck my concentration?) and often I use it to translate foreign or uncommon words or to find places on a map that were mentioned in a story. Kevin
Sadly my phone is so old and crappy that I dare not upload the thingamiggiy that would read the QR code. Honestly, I will never use the QR code. I vote for a fundraiser to support you having a lush book packed full of photos. Sure it will be expensive, but you can be sure I will buy a copy.
Interesting compromise. Maybe some enterprising person can arrange to produce just a "photos from the book" magazine type thing print-on-demand, so someone can enjoy the experience held in their hands, away from electronics.
Thank you, everyone, for your range of responses. They are are extremely helpful. I have long used the TinyUrl.com service - in which a long, difficult to remember, pain-in-the-neck-to-type Internet address is swapped out for one that's much shorter. At the end of each chapter in the PRINT edition, I will include both a QR code that may be scanned AND a TinyUrl that can be quickly typed into an Internet browser to see the photos.
I'm sorry that the book itself will not include photos. They are a legal minefield. Copyright law says you need the written permission of the person who took the photo before you can publish it in a book. In certain circumstances, you also need a signed model release from whomever is in the photo. Book publishers take copyright law very seriously. A book could be pulled from the shelves - or from the Amazon system - due to a single allegation of copyright violation. I just can't go there :-(
Again, though, thanks for all this feedback. I'm grateful.
I understand your dilemma and I am comfortable using QR codes, but still I would LOVE having the photos included in the printed book so it really fits the purpose of serving as a memento to never forget what happened, and also because for a lot of reasons (censorship and technology obsolescence, just to mention a couple). Perhaps a separated "deluxe" edition including only photos where copyright is not an issue could be worked out? Those that you took yourself certainly qualify, and I bet many of those that have shared their photos with you wouldn't mind.
I will be buying this book, and if you ever publish a version with photos, I will buy it again. Really looking forward to keep a physical memory of this event. Good luck!
I bet a kickstarter/indiegogo crowdfunding campaign for a convoy photo book would be successful.
If you or any of your acquaintances think this is something worth doing, I’m a graphic designer and can help put such a book together. Feel free to reach out.
If it's all that can be done, fine. I don't use QR codes myself, but I do have a phone and I can learn. Will probably want to download soft copies and stash, so as not to risk losing the photos if any hostile agencies ever attack their online home.
Welcome to the club D.J. - I'm 80 and dine know how to access those codes either but like you will now try to learn how. As a personal friend of Dnonna since I met her on Wellingron St., I follow each and every word she posts or prints.
Also an elder (60+) I'm expecting it will be easy enough to do this, recognize the problem of images that work on a screen not being good quality for print...but also loathe smartphones and a bit *shrug*sigh* every time I hit another reason I can't take a sledgehammer to the one I have.
Yeah, good point, trusting substack as a long-term archive is a bit of a risk.
Nothing necessarily lasts forever, even on the Internet...
Hi Donna ~ just tried the sample one and it was immediate, non-glitchy, and the pix were fantastic. So, 100% on using it.
This is from someone with a built-in aversion to QR codes (for reasons! I still carry a Sharpie in my purse, to alter codes should they ever again appear at the entrances of shopping malls.
Works perfectly!
Qr codes are great , every user will be identified! Great idea …you can make money that way too …
Hi, Claudio. The QR code is simply a pointer to a page that exists on the Internet. To my knowledge there is no way for anyone to be tracked or identified. Nor is there any way for anyone - especially me - to make money if someone uses these codes.
Hi Donna - I think this is actually an improvement over having photos in a book - as you certainly will have many more than what you could practically put in a book, especially yours (and it will be mine when available!). I find that I usually have my phone close at hand when reading anyway - (did government tyranny wreck my concentration?) and often I use it to translate foreign or uncommon words or to find places on a map that were mentioned in a story. Kevin
Sadly my phone is so old and crappy that I dare not upload the thingamiggiy that would read the QR code. Honestly, I will never use the QR code. I vote for a fundraiser to support you having a lush book packed full of photos. Sure it will be expensive, but you can be sure I will buy a copy.
Could you include links on the electronic copies, either inbeded in the chapter and or at the end of the chapter with the QR code.
I too am not a fan of QR codes, acqward and security wise.
Hi, David. Yes, the e-book edition will have tons of links. A different solution is required for the print edition :-)
It worked by pointing the cellphone camera at the QR code on my computer screen and tapping the link when it appeared.
I couldn't do it when I was reading it on my Samsung phone - it might work, but it didn't work instantly like in the camera.
Interesting compromise. Maybe some enterprising person can arrange to produce just a "photos from the book" magazine type thing print-on-demand, so someone can enjoy the experience held in their hands, away from electronics.
Thank you, everyone, for your range of responses. They are are extremely helpful. I have long used the TinyUrl.com service - in which a long, difficult to remember, pain-in-the-neck-to-type Internet address is swapped out for one that's much shorter. At the end of each chapter in the PRINT edition, I will include both a QR code that may be scanned AND a TinyUrl that can be quickly typed into an Internet browser to see the photos.
I'm sorry that the book itself will not include photos. They are a legal minefield. Copyright law says you need the written permission of the person who took the photo before you can publish it in a book. In certain circumstances, you also need a signed model release from whomever is in the photo. Book publishers take copyright law very seriously. A book could be pulled from the shelves - or from the Amazon system - due to a single allegation of copyright violation. I just can't go there :-(
Again, though, thanks for all this feedback. I'm grateful.
I understand your dilemma and I am comfortable using QR codes, but still I would LOVE having the photos included in the printed book so it really fits the purpose of serving as a memento to never forget what happened, and also because for a lot of reasons (censorship and technology obsolescence, just to mention a couple). Perhaps a separated "deluxe" edition including only photos where copyright is not an issue could be worked out? Those that you took yourself certainly qualify, and I bet many of those that have shared their photos with you wouldn't mind.
I will be buying this book, and if you ever publish a version with photos, I will buy it again. Really looking forward to keep a physical memory of this event. Good luck!