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I have been using them for the past year, Once you have accumulated a dozen or so sources to pull from, the internet comes to you!

No more aimless or futile wandering, No clicking on seemingly innocuous website and picking up a bunch of spyware or worse. No more side distractions, flashing banners or ads from a website you visited earlier.

Follow blogs, articles from favourite websites, this feed even. Great for a tablet or kindle as well.

RSS or sometimes known as atom feeds are not exclusive to Google. There are dozens of "readers" doing a similar job. See the link below for a description of the better ones available.

http://www.howtogeek.com/128487/the-best-free-rss-readers-for-keeping-up-with-your-favorite-websites/


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Ah sure - I just haven't usually heard them described as 'reader feeds'.


I don't typically use them on a PC, as I don't tend to read long form on a desktop or laptop.


My favorite content aggregator is Flipboard on my iPad. It gives me a satisfying mix of content selected and edited by my own preferences, and content selected and edited by mates through Facebook and Twitter posts.


Most importantly, the iPad is good for long form reading.


The thing I'm concerned about is that by repackaging content they ride slipshod over the needs of the content creator to monetize the content through advertising or other commercial opportunities.


If we don't bear that in mind, we'll lose good content, and will gain content that's written as a commercial end in itself (oral hygiene advice from Colgate...)

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I have dumped reader from google ahead of the cut off, I now use the one linked below, it will draw all of your subscriptions over as well. A lot of other readers will also be affected as they might use the google API for their feeds and this will be withdrawn.

Feedly is also available as a app for android


http://www.feedly.com/

Yeah, my main concern is that most 'alternatives' actually used the api, and I downloaded feedly for android about an hour ago and had to do the usual google login, so was a tad concerned, but you say it actually just pulls over the definition and stores and maintains it independently?


If so that's mighty fine.


I've backed up my feeds definition anyhow.

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