LogFAQs > #929796849

I travel a lot, I'll tell you this - books get flagged all the time (especially if you have a bunch of them, which it sounds like you did). The X-ray machines are worthless when it comes to books, they just appear as giant rectangular blocks. So they have to check them manually. And yes, they opened them up to see if you were hiding anything in the pages, since the X-ray machine may have not been able to see it.

I fly with Magic cards on occasion in my carry on, and I just take them out of the bag because it gets flagged each time.

And yeah, it's frustrating that they always just make a mess of everything and cram it all back in. I have everything neatly folded and organized, and when I open it up everything is just a mess with a note on top saying tsa went through it.
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