Printing a book with more than 999 seductive photos, previously unheard audio recordings, revealing videos, informative links and sexy interactive maps is obscenely expensive.
Fortunately The Idiot’s ace production team — led by book designer, guru and geek Aaron Patterson — has figured out how to give you all that and more in The Idiot and the Odyssey III: Twenty Years Walking The Mediterranean, the soon-to-be-published final book in The Idiot’s Mediterranean travel trilogy, at a palatable price.
Here’s how:
Book designer, guru and geek Aaron Patterson carefully read The Idiot’s 180,000 word travel narrative about the last leg of his 20-year walk around the Mediterranean Sea. This is the third book in The Idiot and the Odyssey trilogy.
Book designer, guru and geek Aaron Patterson carefully chose 999 photos, videos and audios produced by The Idiot during his just-completed five-year MedTrek from Greece through Turkey, Cyprus, Lebanon, Israel and Egypt to Tunisia.
Fortunately the 5,241 photos and videos taken and recorded by The Idiot were in chronological order, which somewhat simplified the selection and categorization process for book designer, guru and geek Aaron Patterson.
Book designer, guru and geek Aaron Patterson generated QR codes that will be placed throughout the book to take readers to photo galleries and audio/video files.
Want to try it out?
Simply hover your iPhone camera or old-school app over the barcode in the upper right and you can hear an hour-long radio interview with The Idiot by ABC Radio in Australia.
The barcode on the lower right takes you to amazon.com to buy The Idiot’s books.
The bar code on the bottom left takes you to Idiot-ic videos.
The barcode on the bottom right takes you to The Idiot’s books on amazon.com.
QR codes taking readers to chapter-by-chapter photo galleries will appear at the end of each of the 24 chapters in The Idiot and the Odyssey III: Twenty Years Walking The Mediterranean.
Naturally the paper version of The Idiot and the Odyssey III: Twenty Years Walking The Mediterranean doesn’t consist solely of QR codes.
Book designer, guru and geek Aaron Patterson has created appropriate icons for each of the 24 chapter titles in The Idiot and the Odyssey III: Twenty Years Walking The Mediterranean.
The Idiot and the Odyssey III: Twenty Years Walking The Mediterranean travel narrative includes numerous informative sidebars.
Does all this high-tech coding and bar coding make you hunger for an old school photograph?
MedTrekker Carlo Roberts just sent The Idiot this collage from their 2000 MedTrek in Spain. The photo will NOT appear in The Idiot and the Odyssey III: Twenty Years Walking The Mediterranean which takes place from 2013 to 2018.
This old school photo collage, taken on the MedTrek in Spain almost twenty years ago, will not have a barcode in The Idiot and the Odyssey III: Twenty Years Walking The Mediterranean.
(Photos: Carlo Roberts)
And if you think the printed version of The Idiot and the Odyssey III: Twenty Years Walking The Mediterranean is state-of-the-art, wait until you check out the eBook. It’s crazy!
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