I have been using Google reader a lot lately so I compiled a list of reasons why I like Google reader, perhaps if you are not using Google reader now, you should give it a try for a few days, even if you are already using an RSS reader, try Google reader its pretty nice, specially if you are like me and like to read news from a handful of sites that you visit very often. Here is why I love Google reader:

Easy Navigation: Its pretty easy to navigate around and setting up your feeds and grouping them with tags, the navigation is very intuitive and not complicated.

User interface: the user interface has nice colors looks very slick not over done, and supper fast because they are using some cool JavaScript behind like scenes like Ajax. I myself am very surprise how fast Google reader is.

On the go: does not matter if you forgot your laptop or PDA , if you can access the Internet then you have access to your Google reader feeds wherever you are since its browser based.

Automatically track new and read Items: Google reader automatically tracks which items you have read as you scroll past them either using the scroll bar in the browser or using the previews and next buttons,  that way you don’t have to wonder in limbo which one you have read and which one you haven’t

Time Saver: you can use the feeds from all the sites you visit frequently, like news and your friends blogs and you get all your information in one place, and not wasting time visiting every single  web site, you get the news from all of them right into one place. This is probably the one of the biggest advantages combined with the fact that it is web based, I keep my friends blog’s feeds in my Google reader along with feeds from sites I used to visit often. Now I don’t have to go to all those sites, just fire up Google reader and I am reading all the stuff from the sources I want in one place

Import and export of subscription list: This way you can easily share your entire collections of rss feeds with other people or simple populate your Google reader feeds from other sources easily

Automatic Updates of the feeds and auto discovery of feeds: the feeds are updated automatically and can be updated on demand too, that way you always have the latest items, and if you don’t know the feed URL just time the web site URL and the reader will auto discover the feed URL for you.

Reading Trends: It also keeps track of all the items you see and read and can give you the trends  like number of items and percentage read for each feed subscription as well brake down by item or site feed, that way you can see how much time you spend reading more.

Feed entry rating: This is pretty cool, because if there is a feed that you really like, you can rate it and mark it with a star, there is no multiple starts raking mechanism for now, so maybe in the future we can hope to see that.

Lets you share feed entries: Just as you can mark feed items with a star, you an also mark them as shared, and you can send the LINK of all your shared items to your friends so they can see your shared items.

Display your shared Items in your site: with a simple script that you can copy and past into your web site, you can display the items that you have marked as shared

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