R U Reading Yet? (Shakespeare-As-Text-Message)

Dot mobile, a British mobile-phone service aimed at students, says it plans to condense classic works of literature into SMS text messages. The company claims the service will be a valuable resource for studying for exams. Academic purists will be horrified. Hamlet’s famous soliloquy, “To be or not to be, that is the question,” becomes “2b? Nt2b? ???”