How to View Feeds With Google Reader

Once you have subscribed to various feeds on the Internet, use the free Google reader to keep track of your feeds, read them at your leisure and stay updated on their content as it changes.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Look on the left hand side of your screen while in Google Reader. There you will find the names of the feeds you have chosen to subscribe to. Feeds that have new content will be in bold type and will have a number in parenthesis beside it, which denotes the number of new articles available for you to view. If the title of your feed is not in bold, that means you have already seen all available feeds for that subscription.

2. Click on one of the bold feed titles and view the content in the window to the right. If you prefer to follow a link and read the content you have subscribed to in it's original location, clicking the underlined title will take you there. As you read each article, you notice the number in parenthesis next to the title to the left change to reflect the remaining number of unread articles in the feed.

3. Change your view if you like. The expanded view described in the previous step is the default view for Google reader. However, by clicking on the list view tab at the upper right of the page, you can toggle to a screen that allows you to see a more condensed and easily scanned version of the feed. You can still click on the available articles to see the full feed. This view is helpful if you prefer to scan content rather than read closely, or if you recently subscribed to a feed and want to make sure you have read all the articles you are interested in before marking them all read.

4. Log in and check back frequently to see which feeds have been updated in Google Reader. You can stay current on all of your news, hobbies and friends by keeping an eye on your feeds in this handy software.