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by hemmer 3704 days ago
I've tried a variety of RSS readers recently for keeping track of academic publications (arxiv and journal feeds etc). I've settled on inoreader [1] as this: (i) includes a search feature in the free tier, (ii) has keyword highlighting (useful for trawling through long lists of papers), (iii) has a reliable Android app.

[1] http://www.inoreader.com

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I also use Inoreader and after using it for quite a while, I decided to pay for it to support the developers.

My preference is to use the mobile web interface [1] in a web browser for most of my RSS reading on a tablet or phone, rather than use the app. I find it gives me greater control over my reading experience.

For example, I've disabled image loading in feeds. And since I'm still in a web browser, I can open multiple tab views (each one displaying a separate category of RSS feeds) at once, letting me rapidly scan feed headings without the need to go back and forth between categories in the app; they just load in the background while I reading the headings in one tab.

[1] https://www.inoreader.com/m/

Another happy paid customer of Inoreader here. The chrome is small and out of the way, keyboard shortcuts work well, it syncs read/unread status well between the website and the mobile app, and I like using the Star feature as a way of marking items I'd like to revisit later.
Agree, Inoreader has a lot of power user features.

The iOS apps are good too.