5/6/2023 0 Comments Google reader alternative 2017![]() ![]() The scientific literature needs a tool like this - we have hundreds and hundreds of new articles coming along all the time, and while scrolling through them in RSS isn't ideal, it's a lot better than any other solution I've come across. One size doesn't fit all.Īnd that's where Google Reader will be missed, unless someone else can step up. I am feeling more like a dinosaur every time I say this, but I don't own a tablet (or not yet), and I wish that web sites would find a way to deliver their content both ways: in concentrated blasts of scrolling info for people using a more conventional desktop (or who just like it that way) and in big, flippy, roomy, tablet-screen-sized chunks for those who like it that way instead. What I already know is this: many RSS-based services seem to be colorful-picture-tile things (like Flipboard), and for the chemical literature, they're of no use to me. And The Old Reader seems to be an effort to recreate the service as well, going back to some sharing functionality that Google stripped out a while back in the interest of promoting Google+. And now the search is on for a replacement.įeedly is apparently trying to clone the service on their own, so that's a possibility. ![]() Problems had been apparent for some time now, but this still took me by surprise. Google Reader is to be shut down on July 1. Well, as you've probably heard, the site that many of us have been using to do all this is closing. (No more "new journal table" in the library, is there?) Journals are updated constantly, and that's the most concentrated way to get all the new information in one place for flipping through. And I feel sure that many readers here follow the current scientific literature that way. I suspect that many people follow this blog through its RSS feed. ![]()
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