Google Reader Replacement Options — A Bloggiesta Mini-Challenge
As you can see, I’m playing with Bloglovin as a possible replacement to Google Reader which is dying on July 1. It looks pretty but I may need something less visual and more efficient to get through quickly.
The Picky Girl is hosting a Bloggiesta mini-challenge for those of us looking for an alternative to Google Reader: Bloggiesta Mini-Challenge: Feed Readers. She went through a bunch of them so we can assess the pros and cons of the various choices.
[Edited to add, 3 December 2016: Thanks to Lewis Parrott for pointing out that Spundge no longer exists. There doesn’t seem to be an exact replacement, but Lewis offered a page of 50 writing tools that will help you organize material and generate content for blog posts and other purposes] At the moment, I’m considering a different one, though. Chrisbookarama tweeted about Spundge. The most useful page that I’ve found about it is this one: 5 reasons why Spundge should be your Google Reader alternative, with many links to other information. It’s more than an RSS Reader since it will also bring in Twitter, Facebook, and other feeds. But it’s more than that, too. There are ways to curate all that information into notebooks for use later. I’m not sure I have a use for that, but it sure sounds cool — the kind of thing that I might discover I have tons of uses for, I just don’t know it yet.
It’s such a big change in paradigm, however, that I’m hesitant to dive in right now. It might take days before I resurface and Bloggiesta is almost at an end!
What are you doing about an alternative to Google Reader?
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I’m glad you looked into it! I signed up for Bloglovin just to claim my blog, for now. Not sure if I’m going to make it my Google Reader replacement.
I was offline all weekend, or rather logging mileage, planning for Africa and napping. 😉
Thanks for this post, I’m going to look into both RSS options. I created a page on my blog with me must read but having posts in a feeder is much easier to manage.
I’m using Bloglovin because I only use a reader to read. I don’t try to organize anything with it so I don’t need all the fancy features. I like the fact that Bloglovin actually takes you to each blog so it is easier to comment – like this!
I’m curious about Spundge, too. It would be nice to have one site that does all those things, but I’m not sure about switching just yet. I really like Bloglovin as a reader and do enjoy opening it each day (especially on Mondays) to catch up with everyone. We’ll see. So many tools…so little time.
I’m off to check out Spundge. I’ve been trying NetVibes, but I’m not in love with it yet.
I think I am going with Feedly…I like the look and the mobile app is so much easier to read through than Google Reader was. Good luck making your choice!
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