Publishers dumbfounded by airplane book ban - The Globe and Mail: "Canadian publishers are dumbfounded by new airport security measures that seem to forbid passengers from bringing books and magazines purchased pre-flight onto airplanes bound for the U.S.
The measures, announced Dec. 28 by Transport Canada, permit Canadian passengers en route to the U.S. to carry on board “one or more” of 13 specified items. They include canes, cameras, laptop computers, musical instruments and “medical devices.”
However, books and magazines are not included among the permitted items. The situation has left Carolyn Wood, executive director of the Association of Canadian Publishers, “speechless, really. We're used to governments fearing books for their content. But what is it here? Is it their explosive capability?”"
Hat tip to Art Scott.
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Bill, I am Canadian, and I am chagrined to admit that Canada, not Texas, now safely leads the way.
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Detectives Beyond Borders
"Because Murder Is More Fun Away From Home"
http://www.detectivesbeyondborders.blogspot.com/
Somebody has to keep us safe!
Which reminds me that they ban the use of electronic devices like the Kindle on overseas flights, the sales of those items will drop.
I'm also Canadian and I don't think it's Transport Canada saying what can or cannot be carried on flights to the USA. According to reports, Canadians can carry plenty of items and a carryon bag on flights to other countries, but not on ones that either stop in the US en route to another destination or flights that terminate there. I flew out of London's Gatwick airport a few years ago on the day following the terrorist activities that started the no carryon situation and my biggest concern was not being allowed reading material on the flight that landed in the Twin Cities. Northwest finally agreed that you could buy books, magazines and newspapers at a kiosk near the departure gate. That was after four different searchs. That's the same rule that is now in effect for flights to the US. Just don't bring Murder in Four Parts from home and expect to get it onto your flight.
Drat.
Probably can't bring the Kindle, either.
I can picture some yahoo on a US-bound flight standing in the aisle, a bag held at arm's length in both hands, screaming that he has a dangerous object in it, and, when he's wrestled to the ground, it turns out to be a Dan Brown novel.
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Detectives Beyond Borders
"Because Murder Is More Fun Away From Home"
http://www.detectivesbeyondborders.blogspot.com/
Anything to keep those Harlequins out.
Nothing's more dangerous than a book in the wrong hands.
Will someone please explain to me how a paperback book is dangerous to anyone or to the airplane?
It might contain an idea.
...because if I can't take a book on the plane, I'm not flying. I hope the damn airlines all go out of business. Oh, wait it's all for my own good isn't it?
Well, yes, there is that, Bill.
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