Books for Blocks

The plan is, each day I write and publish pages, I offer them to supporters who pledge their Ada to the stake pool (Books4Blocks is a name idea), where the literature is offered for free to stake pool supporters.

These pages address current issues -- and focus primarily on self-liberation, and healing of the soul. What's needed daily.

Books get written, blocks get saturated, a gallery of NFT art is generated exclusive to Cardano Net, and pages are offered daily. All dedicated to the Mainnnet nodes we saturate as a community.

In effect we build the New Library of Alexandria that will never be burned down. And it shall contain great wisdom.

If folks want to purchase either full books or pages individually, I am not opposed to auctions starting at 1 ADA. And so we get an auctions system and gallery going for the sale of NFTs. Any pages I sell that sell for more than 10 Ada I shall by request mail and ship the original typewritten pages won, so members of the community can own the original. Not the rights to copyright work, mind you, but the rights to own the original digital print as well as the physical page. As an original art piece. And that is how I will receive compensation for my service. The rest of the work I provide for free. And it's valuable.

My requested funds are to recover the costs of the scanning software I use which is Kofax OmniPage ($499) and my digital scanner ($100). I am fine with access to the gallery being managed by community vote. This will require collaborative effort. That's what I'm asking for more than anything here. I am not a programmer. It seems to be perceived as a weakness, and a gatekeeper.  I offer a valuable, alternative perspective. I am a writer who believes in Cardano enough to bring several friends and family aboard the train. I want to share my writing, music and film with this community. I want to collaborate with other creatives who are willing to take a leap of faith with me. There is no outlet for writers, musicians or filmmakers from what I can see through Cardano. There is no forum. So tell me what I have to do to create a hub for readers, filmmakers, musicians, writers and poets.

Without this, there is a major element missing and this creative element can and will drive the expansion of the Cardano community. I want in. I don't know how else to ask for it. I've been asking for help with this for months. Written Charles directly. Literature is life. Yet no one is reading. Perhaps you want audiobooks? No problem, I can do that too.

If there was no written word, there would be no lambda calculus and that means there would be no programming languages. No Cardano. No blockchain. No Ada Lovelace writing the first programming code. No civilization.

I'm asking for you to support a dying craft by immortalizing it. That's what this community is about. That's what I believe. Now someone please be courageous and come forward and work with me. Someone who can handle the backend and turn a jpeg into an NFT. For starters. And then an .mp3. And then a .mp4. Then pdf and word docs. All NFTs. That's what the artists need.

We must start building a compendium of artistic expression to fuel our hearts and souls and keep us going. And celebrate it.

If I'm missing where this forum exists where folks are cranking out NFTs and selling them like hotcakes to eager artist supporters, I want in. But I want it to be as easy as maintaining a Substack blog. Something turn-key where creatives can write, compose, create, and post as NFT. No more run arounds, Artists need to get involved if you want fuel.

The first alt-coin to do this is going to have a head start on the rest.

Jeff Bezos was one of the first, and most determined to accomplish this with books on the Internet. He believed. Now someone must take the lead with this on blockchain. I'll supply a ton of literature to get us started. Let's lay the foundation.

-W.V.Carleton