'Paradise Lost' in a nutshell

...or on cellphones, anyway. We're talking about text-messaging as a learning tool for students of English literature. Here's John Milton's "Paradise Lost," as pointed out by the San Jose Mercury News:
"devl kikd outa hevn coz jelus of jesus&strts war. pd'off wiv god so corupts man(md by god) wiv apel. devl stays serpnt 4hole life&man ruind. Woe un2mnkind." Just one of a number of "condensed masterpieces" that a service called dot mobile will be offering students starting in January. It's an "aide memoir," says Prof. John Sutherland, Lord Northcliffe Professor Emeritus of English Literature at University College London, who co-developed the service with dot mobile and his students. Of course there's also "2B? NT2B? =???" and the rest of Hamlet. Dot mobile's press release says they'll launch with "precis versions" of Romeo & Juliet, Paradise Lost, Pride and Prejudice, Bleak House, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, and Lord Of The Flies. By April: all of Shakespeare and the Caterbury Tales. Consider Cliff Notes replaced. Well, sorta. Parents, you have heard of CliffsNotes.com and SparkNotes.com, right? What's really notable, here, is that everything's moving onto mobiles in interesting ways.