Literally all I take on flights now is books and my meds. Just personally, I don’t particularly want to take out my stack of books about eugenics, genocide, and sex.
I’m not who they’re targeting but I fear for any of my friends and colleagues who are have any books or materials that remotely look “foreign.”
I wonder…if you have global entry or TSA precheck…if you will be exempt from this. Those folks don’t have to take computers out…or shoes off, etc.
LOL–years ago (at least 7) my kid went on a trip in high school to China as part of a educational group.
We waited as he went through security to wave good-bye to him.
And he got dragged to the side for further inspection of his backpack…What in the world?
Turned out he had “War and Peace” in the bottom of his backpack–and the x-ray couldn’t get through it…
If they do this I’m going to get some splendidly shocking material just to see what I can get away with. I’ll have to resort to CollegeConfidential for suggestions, of course 
Neither could I. 
Ok @patsmom I literally LOL’ed at that one.
@patsmom- =))
Reminds me of the time they had to pull out the ear of corn I had brought to eat while waiting for my flight. The scanner was mystified. I sometimes bring left overs to the airport when leaving on a trip.
But seriously, this is one of the more irritating things they could come up with. Time on a plane can be some of the best reading or language studying time available, freed from the attractions of the internet.
So what’s going to happen when families with kids see somebody pull out adult reading material? Gee that’s gonna end well.
I play Mah Jongg on line—will i be in trouble?
Why even bother with packing… Just put all of your cabin items in a garbage bag… dump it all out into the TSA bin… then dump it back into the bag.
In this day and age, why the heck are we still using ancient tech to screen? Xraying and microwaving people… Whatever happened to bio and chem sensors development?
And of course these restrictions to come as bag fees go up on checked bags.
I’m not a conspiracy theorist but I could see how a case could be made here :-w (No, I don’t really think that’s why the TSA is doing this… I’m just grumpy about it.)
I think I’ve told this story before but several years back, I flew on the day that the liquid bomb was supposed to happen. I flew out of LAX back to Detroit by myself as a young teen (I think I was about 14?). I literally took nothing on the plane except the Harry Potter (6?) book that had just come out like the day before.
And now even THAT is suspect?
It’s just annoying and it really just feels like a show. So many things get through security that shouldn’t and I foresee this new plan (if it goes into place) catching a lot more math professors doing complex calculations than terrorists who have shoved their plans (or whatever it is they’re supposedly looking for) into a Stephen King book.
I always carry magazines so I can discard them afterwards. The TSA flipping through mags is just going to have all those little ads that come flying out. This actually just sounds like a new excuse to hire more agents.
Blame Andy Dufresne.
2 years ago if you’d told me We’d have agents inspecting books in case theyd contain something dangerous I’d have said someone should stop watching Goonies adlnd wean off Scooby doo. No secret caches inside books, secret buttons that reveal treasure, dangerous criminals masquerading as mathematicians, etc.
It sounds like a paranoid has taken over at TSA. It sounds crazy and really really doesn’t make me want to fly.
Its just Amazon trying to increase sales of Kindles. 
^ except they’d forbid tablets too…
@saillakeerie Took me a second! . Also, I thought your name was a weirdly spelled “Sally Keerie” something, till I just typed it out!
First it was my counted cross-stitch … now it’s my books. Air travel just got even more boring for me!
It’ll be fine…just bring your pet tiger with you for company.