This is an unwritten rule of military procurement to any IT or communication technology was a few years behind commercial alternatives for safety. Obviously following this rule, developed for the US Navy e-reader Navy e-Reader Device (NeRD) is so protected that 300 recorded in books will not be updated at all. Never.
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Findaway World began developing this device two years ago, and now 365 readers have been distributed on ships and US Navy submarines. At the same time, the company has already delivered the same readers of the Army and other military departments.
The brainchild of the Fleet’s General Library Program, this reader on electronic ink is not connected to the Internet, it has no slots extensions, cameras, and it does not provide any possibility Add or remove content. All this is done in order to prevent the possibility of smuggling secret military information, photographing, computer distribution Melvera or recording secret conversations.
This book is intended to entertain sailors. However, if reader tastes extend beyond bestsellers like Games of thrones or Girls with a dragon tattoo, as well as popular on a fleet of authors like Tom Clancy and James Patterson, an American classics and naval history, then this library is in his pocket, likely to get bored quickly.
Moreover, if all these works were chosen for their popularity among sailors, does this mean that most of them them already read? Of course, this selection is much more modest than the available ones. 108,000 items in the US Navy’s own digital library – but all of them are accessible to sailors only on the shore.
The key advantage, of course, is that several e-readers take up much less space than 300 books. However, some cynics have noticed that this approach allows the Navy to control what sailors read, in the same way how he controls what they eat when they sleep and when they work.
However, it’s still better than getting stuck in your head six month submarine sailing with just a copy Dan Brown’s latest creation and November Readers Digest 2011 year.
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