Where4 R U Romeo?

Are Cliffs Notes too detailed for you? Do texts like Paradise Lost and Wuthering Heights have too many pesky real words and not enough abbreviations? If you answered "yes" to either of those questions, Dot Mobile, a mobile-phone service for British students, has just the thing for you.

The company is about to unveil a new service that condenses classic works of fiction—by turning them into text messages. A precis of Romeo and Juliet, for example, will run just five terse sentences:

FeudTween2hses-Montague&Capulet. RomeoM falls_