
Engadget has a story about the US Navy's new eReader device, which is a locked-down eInk device containing a static library of books:
http://www.engadget.com/2014/05/07/navy-e-reader/
It's hardly attractive to me, but if I were serving on a ship with no other source of reading material, it would be a lot better than nothing. I wonder if it is waterproofed?