1. A computer-implemented method for creating a combination volume and electronic volume, the method comprising: receiving content of an electronic volume; creating colored cells within a color space to provide an encoded representation of the received content in an image by processing the received content to obtain a stream of integers, each integer in the stream of integers corresponding to a color in the color space for a cell in the image; creating one or more additional cells adjoining the encoded image, the one or more additional cells for assisting in decoding the encoded image; and printing the image onto a page of a volume.