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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Do you have to take your Reader out at Heathrow Airport? All the times I've been there, I've never taken my Reader out of my bag and my H2O is larger than an iPhone 6 Plus. My phone sometimes goes in the tray depending where I have it when I am at security. But my Reader has never ever been out of my bagat any airport. And that includes airports in the UK.
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I frequently travel through UK airports. A few years ago Heathrow did change the rules such that you had to remove ereaders. As I recall the signs they put up in T5 actually said Kindle rather than something more generic. I stopped traveling with both an ereader and tablet after that because it was too awkward to get everything out plus a laptop and remove coats etc. I can't remember if the rule was still in effect last time I went through Heathrow. One time when I went through Manchester the guy next to me had his iPad stolen because your stuff goes through the belt faster than you can through the scanners, and it was an easy target not being inside a bag.
The Wall Street Journal reported in the last few weeks that the US has been testing removing all kinds of things from bags such as food and electronics bigger than a cellphone. I recently had to take my tablet out separately. It was frustrating because it's not the current rule so it confused everyone and the line was already long. Turns out I was in one of the cities identified in the WSJ article as running tests!