The Navy doesn't allow the other electronic reader device such as iPad or Kindle to be used in submarines because it's too risky for the security. Spy could hack the system and silently tracking the camera or the location antenna on the device.
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That's whats made The Navy’s General Library Program announced the NeRD, or Navy eReader Device. It’s a tablet with e-Ink screen which is like Kindle, but with no internet connectivity and other capabilities, just the original e-Book Reader.
What would be considered limiting [for] the technology is actually perfecting the device for its designated audience - Findaway World, US military’s exclusive supplier of audiobooks.
The Navy’s library program has ebooks and audiobooks available online for service members and their families. The e-reader came about after they requested the same access on ships.
Since we have the digital product available while sailors are on shore, we wanted to find a way to get digital accessibility while sailors are on ships. They can keep 300 books that would have taken up their entire library locker in their pocket now. - Nilya Carrato, program assistant for the library program
The Navy is making 365 devices at first, with more to follow. The Navy plans to send about five to each submarine to be shared between multiple people. Each reader is preloaded with 300 books that will never change. The selection includes modern fiction like Tom Clancy and James Patterson, who are popular in the Navy, as well as nonfiction, the classics, and "a lot of naval history," says Carrato.
via The Verge
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