Flying gives me all this new material to file under Daily Badness… this Thanksgiving, I was infuriated by a flight attendant who insisted that I “turn off” my Kindle reader while being totally fine with the person next to me listening to music. There are so many things wrong with this, where should I begin.

For one, e-ink screens only consume power when I turn the pages so for the overwhelming majority of time the device is as good as turned off (with the added twist of irony where “turning off” the device would have to be me simply putting it away). The interference such a device might cause is also likely an order of magnitude greater than any interference that a music player may cause. Finally, it’s very likely that the person listening to music wasn’t listening to it on his casette tape player, and the hidden device he used is likely significantly more complex than the Kindle.

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