SWM wrote:Yow wrote:It is a small matter. I just thought the moment it took draw paper or digital printout would have been the same. Navies are ridiculously traditionally traditional. Hence my moment of spatz. I tried to search for posts on bridge size but I didn't see it. I'll add to a post but I don't like doing stand alone repeat posts
Libraries have e books? How do you check those out? I assumed for a while you were a Terry Pratchett fan but now I'll assume you're an actual librarian.
My review is on the previous page of this thread. But there's nothing wrong with you pointing out the bridge size or the electronic vs. paper thing. You weren't being belligerent about it, just mentioning things you happened to notice.
[diverting off topic]Yes, I am an actual librarian.A lot of public libraries do have e-books available for loan. Basically, the library signs up with a service (the largest is OverDrive) which can send the e-book (or audiobook, video, or music) to an app which you load on your electronic device. After the loan period, the app deletes the file from your device, or you could 'return' it early. The library has a limited number of 'copies' which can be on loan at a time. Online titles can be integrated into the library catalog. So it works a lot like loaning a physical item. The OverDrive app is free, and there are versions for almost every electronic reader/player.
I work in an academic library. We generally negotiate our licenses so that we don't need to loan e-resources. Our e-resources are accessible through the web (usually through our online catalog) to anyone with a university account.
Mike Devlin made his initial VLAM [Very Large Amount of Money
] in software and is the sort of major technical geek who could sit down and drink coffee (or hot chocolate) with Shannon Foraker and Sonja Hemphill. As such he informed me at a very early conference that the Honorverse was going paperless. 
Overall, I'm good with that, and the point that explaining the RMN tradition of written orders for this single, specific function would use a lot of bandwidth in a comic book, where word count is a huge concern) is also well taken.
and, Mangy Fur the Smart Alick Spacecat.