I was tempted to put this in the Southwest bashing thread, but I'll put it here instead. Do to a change in Smackette's plans, I flew Southwest yesterday instead of Virgin.
And for the first time yesterday, I had a flight attendant tell me to stowe my kindle during take off. I asked if he was serious? He said "Yes. I see the wireless is off and I know that it doesn't use any power except when you change the page, we just don't want any items flying around the cabin in an emergency."
I looked at Smackette's hard cover novel in her lap that she was reading (easily 5x the size of my kindle) and then at my kindle, then an "are you REALLY serious?" look back at him...
"OK. I'll let you keep it out, just don't turn the page."
"No, don't worry about it - I'll put it away. I'm sorry you didn't get what you want for Christmas...." then I looked back at Smackette "This is why I fly Virgin. They JUST GET IT."
He didn't ask me to put it away for landing.