I borrowed this article from Resurgence and adapted it a little, great reasons for going with a feed reader. Personally, I use NetNewsWire (for Macs) because it syncs with my iPhone nicely, but Google Reader is also an excellent choice.
Four Reasons You Should Get a Feed Reader
Mike Anderson
1. You never miss a blog post from your favorite sites.
Once you subscribe to a feed, your feed reader will make sure that
you see every new post from that feed. Whether you want to read your
websites once a week, once a day, or every ten minutes, any unread
items will be saved for you.
2. You can scan a ton of articles quickly.
When using a feed reader, you can quickly filter through the
articles that you don’t want to read. When surfing the web, you have to
shuffle through different interfaces, type in web addresses, and surf
bookmarks. This takes a ton of time. It’s much better to have the
content you want delivered to you than to have to go find it every time
you get online.
3. Stew-pot learning.
One of the great side-effects of using a feed reader is that you begin to learn about various memes in a stew-pot fashion. You’ll learn new ideas over time, and understand the relationships between them.
4. You can save articles for later.
Feed readers allow you to save articles to read for later. In Google Reader,
you can put a star next to items you like and come back later to read
them in full. You can also tag articles and search for them later.
