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Originally Posted by FF2
Do READERS have to be removed from carry-on luggage like laptop computers or are they treated more like cell phones and camera and mp3 players and can they remain inside the luggage during scanning?
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I fly with my reader all the time. I remove it, because I have to open my briefcase to get out my laptop anyway. If I don't, they ask to run it through again about 3/4 of the time. Now my briefcase is full of computer cables and other scary looking wires. My wife just has hers in her purse, and that causes a rerun only 1/4 of the time. It's really a function of how hard it is to figure out what they are looking at, so I take it out to speed up the line.
Regarding damage to readers by radiation. I've sent my Sony through over 100 times in it's plastic case (see here
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11420). It's never had a problem. I acknowledge that the reports of devices rebooting are possible, if the radiation glitches a bit of memory, but I can't imagine that the radiation would permanently damage a device.