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I find it's not so much the reader itself thats the problem with RSS, but the fact that everybody broadcasts their content differently. Some blogs include a full article, some just a few lines before asking you to click though to their site. Some embed images, some even ads.

If you have dreams of sitting down to a nice application and reading people's feeds in an orderly, unified fashion you might be disappointed.

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I wouldn't consider myself a design snob by any means, but I will not be using Google Reader because it's just unpleasant to look at and navigate. If I had the choice between visiting blogs manually and reading their feeds via Google Reader, I would visit them manually. Now if you throw iPad Reeder into the mix, I would definitely choose iPad Reeder - it seems pleasant, and that's what I want when I'm reading/browsing. I think I can handle those little imperfections you mentioned. Worse case scenario, I click through to the site.

> If you have dreams of sitting down to a nice application and reading people's feeds in an orderly, unified fashion you might be disappointed.

And I don't think it's as much as a dream as it is a preference. Have you seen the iPad RSS readers? I don't think I'm asking too much, this isn't rocket science.