Like Amazon’s (AMZN) Kindle, the Plastic Logic Reader uses a highly legible black-and-white display technology developed by E Ink. And like the Kindle, it can be updated wirelessly. But unlike the Kindle, the Plastic Logic Reader includes touch-based markup and annotation features. It’s also about one-third the Kindle’s thickness and its screen is more than twice as large. It would appear, then, that Plastic Logic’s device will significantly raise the bar on electronic reading devices when it debuts in Jan. 2009, perhaps even beyond the reach of Amazon’s rumored Kindle 2.0.