After 3 years of using Bloglines I switched to Google Reader for reading feeds. Outside work, I spent 90% of my browsing time in my feed reader so this is a very important tool. I’ve used almost since ever web based feed readers, which are much more convenient. I always liked Bloglines simplicity, but now I’ve had just enough with its incapacity in handling duplicate items. I got also tired of seeing the Bloglines plumbers.

So far I like Google Reader. It is a fast and nice interface, as always with Google. The possibility to switch between the list view (where only the title of the items is displayed) and expanded view (where the full text of each item is displayed, like in Bloglines) is great. With some blogs like Engadget I read only a minority of the posts, so the list view is much more efficient.

Very nice also is when choosing to read a feed, not all items are immediately marked as read like in Bloglines. Here they are marked as read as you actually scroll through them and read them. This allows things like reading only half of the unread items of a feed.

With Gmail for email, Google Reader for feed reading, and of course search… now I will spend all my online time on Google web sites, kind of scary…

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