The new Kindle will read to you though

Well, BWI C C/P pulls my GPS out of my laptop bag all the time, claiming it is a DVD player...gotta love those 1.5" diameter DVDs...:rolleyes:

Is your GPS a Tom-Tom?

Yup, smallest unit they make, with the suction cup stored in a separate pocket.

I have had my kindle for about 4 months now and with almost weekly flying, I have never pulled it out of my bag and no screener has ever asked me to remove it or checked my bag because of it.

I fly with a Tom-Tom weekly and no one has ever taken it out of my carry-on bag

Uh, no, not all the time. The problem is the TSOs who aren't trained properly and/or ignore their training and/or on a power trip. At EWR of all places at Thanksgiving, I had my laptop in a laptop sleeve by itself in a bin and was required by the TSO to take it out of the sleeve. He said I was wrong when I advised that the rules allow laptops in sleeves. And guess what? He WAS the TRAINER. This was a training lane.

I've had EWR TSOs demand that I take out a Nintendo DSI and a portable iPod player also even though the rules said that they don't need to come out of the bag. Consistent inconsistency should not apply to these simple rules. :rolleyes:

ORD last week required to take laptop out of sleeve.

This is it exactly -- it all depends on the TSA agent at the time. I have the large Kindle ( Kindle DX) and had no problem with the first several trips, but in Montgomery Ala, was told it must be treated like a computer etc. Now, simply to avoid lengthening my time with these people, I take it out of its sleeve and put it in the same bin as everything else -- my coat, my liquids bag, etc. Since then -- no problems ,and what is important to me -- no re-runs of luggage to check (again!) what they already know it is, no hand searches, etc. BTW - the agent in Montgomery said it is the size of the electronic device that is the issue for them -- so perhaps the small Kindle wouldn't have raised the threshold. How true that explanation was, however, is debatable, I know.

+1

My 8 year old stepson who flies once a month has to take his Wii out of the backpack about 50% of the time.

Have had a Kindle since 4 months after the first one came out. I have never been asked to remove it, either here or abroad.

I have flown with mine exactly once, returning home after receiving it for Christmas. I did not remove it initially. At JFK, the screener asked me if I had a computer, I said I had a Kindle, had to clarify electronic book, and he made me take it out and re-screen.

The original computers were humans. Yes, they were really slow, but they were employed as computers. There's a reason m-w.com says the word dates from 1646.

A Kindle is a computer. Watches (even mechanical ones), phones, MP3 players, pacemakers, aircraft, AVOD, etc., all either are or contain computers.

^ ;)

But TSA is paralyzed with confusion over whether 3 is, or is not, 3.4, by fluid ounces vs avoirdupois ounces, by whether ice is a "frozen liquid" or some other state of matter, and by 8-year-olds who "aren't on the list" but must be treated as if they were. Let's not confuse them any more, shall we? :D

Kindle stays in my bag. I use one bin for all of my stuff: netbook, shoes, Kip Hawley is an idiot bag.