[HarryT]

Originally Posted by desertgrandma

We'd need someone from the Amazon Kindle discussions pages to support that theory. There have been posts about the screen turning black after the Kindle went thru the xray machine. Here is one thought:

http://www.lightmykindle.com/kindle-...port-security/

That sounds like a classic case of post hoc ergo propter hoc. All eInk devices use the same screen, and we have people on MR who have taken various types of reader on literally hundreds of flights with no ill-effects.