Top 5 Blog Readers & Library Blogs

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Feed readers are a great way to curate all of your favorite blogs and other sites into one clean, easily read feed. Think of it like an instagram account of all your favorite blogs! Once you add blogs that you follow, it will show you the blog posts in reverse chronological order. There are several options to choose from when it comes to feed readers, and what you choose ultimately depends on personal preference as each has different features and ways of showing content.
A few notable feed readers are:
1. Feedly- I chose to use feedly as my feed reader for my favorite blogs. It is extremely user friendly, and it makes searching for new blogs and topics easy by showing you how many followers the blog has, if it is considered "inactive", and how many articles put out per month. It's free and allows you to follow up to 100 blogs.
2. Newsblur- Newsblur is a great option if you really want to curate the content that is shown to you. It allows you to filter certain tags or highlight stories you really like. It allows you to follow up to 64 blogs.
3. The Old Reader- This feed reader has a unique option to share recommendations with friends or other people that you follow. It is free (with ads) up to 100 blogs.
4. Bloglovin'- This is a popular option, as it runs much like other social media sites. Its layout is similar to pinterest. It's free and very user friendly. This is my second favorite!
5. Flowreader- Flowreader not only allows you to curate all your blog content in one place, but it also is the one stop feed for all your social media sites! It's free and you can subscribe to as many blogs as you'd like.

Top 5 Library Blogs:
1. Stephen's Lighthouse- Stephen's Lighthouse highlights current library trends, innovation, and information.
2. Letters to a Young Librarian- Although this website is deceased (as of aug 2019), the wealth of information, especially to brand new librarians, is worth going back and reading old posts. It will remain up for the foreseeable future so you can access the archive of posts.
3. The Daring Librarian- I love this blog! Gwenyth shares resources for summer reading, discussions of library trends, and tips on how to deal with obstacles you may face in the library.
4. 5 Minute Librarian- This is one of my faves! Quick, easy to read content from everything to book recommendations to technology, "librarian 101" to marketing tips. We need more blogs like this from school librarians!
5. No Shelf Required- Information on digital content from professionals (authors, editors, publishers, etc.). Lots of great resources and information about ebooks, audiobooks, and other forms of digital literature.

Source:
Volvovski, V. (2019, June 4). The 10 Best Free RSS Reader Apps in 2018. Retrieved from https://zapier.com/blog/best-rss-feed-reader-apps/

Comments

  1. Lana SnowAugust 31, 2019 at 3:50 PM

    I find your blog to be clear and to the point. I also use Freely.com and find it to be easily navigable and a wonderful tool to help in organizing all the different blogs I am interested in. I liked Bloglovin', but found it to fit me more for personal use than professional. I think because it reminded me so much of Pinterest. I am going to have to check out the blogs Letters to a Young Librarian and 5 Minute Librarian. They sound like very interesting and informative blogs to follow. Thank you for sharing. The information you gave was helpful and summed Blog Readers and the Library Blogs nicely!

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  2. Ms.Ibarra NewsSeptember 6, 2019 at 6:45 PM

    I found your blog to be very well organized and informative. With all the great blogs out there to follow its convenient to have all of our favorite ones in one page. I too used feedly because it's user friendly and well organized.

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  3. UnknownNovember 27, 2019 at 9:31 AM

    Very thorough analysis of different blogs and blog readers! Would definitely be helpful to someone starting a blog.

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