DEMENTIA CARE. THE STRUGGLE WITH HYPERLINKS.

One day, this fucking sweary dementia book will go on sale. By the time it does, I'll have wrestled with the hyperlink problem. It'll be settled, that problem.
   Not today.
   What the fuck am I talking about?
   An e-book with hyperlinks leading to the Great Outdoors. That e-book faces a problem. If I link to other sources, I'll be policing the links for eternity plus one...however long that is.
   I want to link to other sources. Honestly. No lie. But I want to run that linking with no hassle, fuss, fuckery, or dickingaboutitis.
   Example.
   My sweary book on dementia. We'll use that as the template. Maybe I wrote a poem, based loosely on a song. (True story.) And maybe I linked to the Fab Four singing that Walrus-based ditty.
   Why? Just so readers could click the link and sing along with YouTube while reading. For no other reason.
   Later, after linking to that song, I discovered the song was taken off YouTube. The song is still there, under other links.
   My only straw, clutched at in electronic despair, is to play YouTube Roulette and guess which link is the best one to pin to my book for eternity.
   I thought I had it set, before. Well, I was wrong. In a mild rage, somewhere between a stiff breeze and a raucous fart, I killed that perfect link.
   There's nothing stopping readers hunting out their own perfect links leading off rather obvious moments in my narrative. I'll attack the problem again, from multiple directions and weather-fronts.
   The other chunk of grief in using hyperlinks? If I go down the path of illustrating my struggle with dementia care, I'm inclined to use digital photos...
   And I won't put those in the book. They add to file-size, which translates into greater data transmission costs. There are limits, and I don't feel like passing uncalled-for expenses to the consumer on a smoking-hot plate.
   Instead, my inclination is to host any relevant photos on dedicated pages, here, inside this blog. No grief, there, you say?
   If I do that, I don't want the damned section to look like a fucking catalogue. What works for one carer might get another killed, after all. And killing with kindness is the worst sort of hurt.
   Older Kindle machines struggle with links to YouTube. That's another negative point worth mentioning. It's a minor quibble. Kindle books are readable on the free app, dispensing with the need for a dedicated Kindle machine.
   There. My struggle with hyperlinks. All part of dementia care. As is writing a book on dementia care. I'm getting there. Slowly. Next, a visit from the nurse. A doctor's appointment. And so on.
   Hyperlinks fall away, next to those other concerns.