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TOOL: Move Aside, Kindle

TOOL: Move Aside, Kindle

An electronic-text reader by Plastic Logic of Mountain View, Calif., due out in 2009, will be aimed at business travelers. The 8½ x 11-in. device, which downloads online content from newspapers and magazines as well as word-processing and other work files, uses technology that recreates print, not Web, versions of publications. The plastic-encased screen is thinner, lighter—and larger—than Amazon.com’s Kindle. Plastic Logic also is working on a reader flexible enough to bend like paper.