JacobCoffinI went down a rabbit hole after talking with someone about circumventing corporations' ability to add DRM to ebooks you write (as Amazon seems to do even when the author tries to prevent it). They mentioned that they wanted to add QR codes to the back of the book which could be used to reconstruct the ebook without DRM. I did some reading to see if that was feasible and what better alternatives would be, and found JAB codes (there's probably something still better out there).
That's how I ended up converting one of my #cyberpunk #scifi short stories to JAB code format.
The default format and the online scanner/generator only go up to 8 bit, but the format can support up to 64, making it much more data-dense. There's a risk data will be lost in printing and scanning it with that kind of color complexity though.
Mostly I just think this is kind of neat, and sort of on-brand for a story about a robot. If you want to read it without scanning check @scrappy_capy_distro
