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Old Jan 26, 2013 | 5:54 pm
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Originally Posted by CPMaverick
ePaper doesn't require battery power while the text is on the screen. So it's possible that she powered off the eReader and then finished her page before putting it away. Either way probably bad practice, but it's possible she didn't actually break any rules.
Per the OP, she was reading for almost 45 minutes. If it took the FA 45 minutes to read one page on an eReader, then that flight and this airline has problems that are far deeper than potential electronic interference...

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