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Originally Posted by pshoebri
Hello all,
I'm creating an ebook that has a few technical challenges, hoping you folks can offer some advice.
1. The book is also going to be a print book. It has 100 color illustrations.
2. The illustrations are also triggers that will activate an augmented reality animation when you hold up an AR app on your phone to them, revealing 15 second loops with audio, overlaid on top of the printed book reference image.
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AR in with/a paper book?
Do an App that is interactive and then do an ordinary printed book and a reflowable epub2 with lower resolution colour images. That will upload to Amazon KDP to make Kindle ebooks.
Totally forget columns. They are for magazines and newspapers or VERY large format books. Horrible on a handheld book and IMPOSSIBLE sensibly in an ebook.
On the Fire and Kindle App, or an epub app it will be colour. On eink Kindles and eink epub readers it will be mono.
You can easily at each point, use a centred QR code, on it's own with a caption below it. That will work an app and work on paper, colour app and eink app on all platforms.
So just make an ordinary book, do it without headers, footers etc for epub first, then reformat a copy when proofed for paper. Insert the QR codes as required, but never as floating images with surrounding text.