Hey just a thought. I love doing Sudoku puzzles in my spare time. I was thinking that a thin sheet of hard plastic to protect the screen, a sheet of transparency paper cut to size and a grease pencil/ would turn the sony reader into a portable sudoku puzzle book.

I've looked to see if there is anything out there to do this but have yet to have found anything in the usual places. Anyone else try something similar?

Justin

You could use a self stick plastic wrap cut to size like they once did for a TV show called Winkie Dink & You

Hey just a thought. I love doing Sudoku puzzles in my spare time. I was thinking that a thin sheet of hard plastic to protect the screen, a sheet of transparency paper cut to size and a grease pencil/ would turn the sony reader into a portable sudoku puzzle book.

I've looked to see if there is anything out there to do this but have yet to have found anything in the usual places. Anyone else try something similar?

Justin

I wouldn't do that if I was you. If you place a thin sheet of hard plastic on your screen and there happens to be something in between them like a piece of sand or so, it will probably scratch your screen. Also Sudoku portable computers retail for less than $10,- so why the effort? :wink:

Sounds a bit more complicated than on the iLiad ;-)

You can generate sudokus for your reader on Feedbooks: http://www.feedbooks.com/news/sudoku

Sounds a bit more complicated than on the iLiad ;-)

You can generate sudokus for your reader on Feedbooks: http://www.feedbooks.com/news/sudoku
That may be so, but there is NO WAY TO FILL THEM OUT!

That may be so, but there is NO WAY TO FILL THEM OUT!

On the iLiad and on paper you can fill them... No input for the PRS-500 means that real working Sudoku will be tough. Might be possible now that we can flash the firmware. Same stuff if we release crosswords in the future. You can't blame Sony for it, it's just 2 different devices: one focusing on book reading, the other on input/network capabilities.
iLiad gets the touch pad and the wifi, PRS-500 gets the lower price and a good resume function.

That may be so, but there is NO WAY TO FILL THEM OUT!

Well I was thinking that one could have in the reader the puzzle and then using the transpancy paper and the grease pencil to fill out the puzzle. then one could say page forward to see the completed puzzle.

I was thinking of using a hard plastic cover underneath the transparancy paper to provide some added protection for the screen but I'm thinking that if the grease pencil was soft enough you could just use the transparancy paper.

I was also thinking that once could get the lines printed on the paper first then all you would need to have in the reader is the numbers.

Hi!

There's a very well working sudoku for SONY-PRS ereaders by obelix ("SUDOKU game for PRS-500 and PRS-505" in "MobileRead Forums > E-Book Devices > Sony Portable Reader").

I had to change line breaks in the template files (= sudoku puzzles) to UNIX in order to run on my 500, though. Now everything works fine and I'm thinking about how to get the game running from internal memory to save power ...

I cut them out of the local paper. Keep them behind the back cover of the Reader and use the BACK of the Reader when I fill them out. Easy solution, works fine.

New Hampshire -- Cool! Me, too. I'm in Nashua.

I have Soduko on my Palm Tungsten T5 which is always with me, so I have taken it off my Sony Reader. It worked fine but was too slow and so not as much fun as I had hoped. and since my Tungsten is with me whenever I'm awake enough to want to play Sudoku, it's fine.

New Hampshire -- Cool! Me, too. I'm in Nashua.

I have Soduko on my Palm Tungsten T5 which is always with me, so I have taken it off my Sony Reader. It worked fine but was too slow and so not as much fun as I had hoped. and since my Tungsten is with me whenever I'm awake enough to want to play Sudoku, it's fine.
I used to have a GF who used to live in Nashua, NH. My parents live in Lexington whihc is about 30 min drive away from Nashua up route 3. I'm a little bit farther away. I'd have to say maybe 50-60 min from Nashua these days.