Went through LAX today with a colleague. We both had Kindles in our bags and neither one of us removed them. My colleague went through first, the screener saw the Kindle on the screen, knew what it was, and called out "Kindle." Another screener responded to the call, collected my colleague's bag, removed the Kindle, searched the bag by hand, and ran it through again.

My bag was already on its way through when this happened, so I was sure I would be next. But no, I got lucky. Either the screener didn't see mine or decided to let it go.

The woman immediately behind me also had a Kindle that she didn't remove from her bag. She got the same treatment as my colleague.