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Originally Posted by iansoady
I just came back to the UK from a few days in Greece. I was able to find a wireless hotspot to do an online check in for the return trip (using a laptop) but could not find any way of printing the boarding pass. After some thought I transferred the PDF from the laptop onto the Kindle - this worked brilliantly, the scanner at the baggage drop off read the 2D barcode with no problem at all.
Much cheaper than using a 3G phone!
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Clever! That technique would probably work with a number of other bar code forms, but only if the vendor / store / redeemer has the type of bar code scanner that doesn't require passing a thin piece of paper through a slot.