Step 3: Tap “ Search” icon located on the top right corner of the screen. Step 2: Create a Flipboard account, if you don’t have one. Step 1: Launch Flipboard app from the Home screen of your device. If you don’t have Flipboard installed, just head on to app store/Google Play and download it. This means, when your feeds are imported to the app, you can read them right inside the app it self. Interestingly, Flipboard also features an option to import your Google Reader feeds. Well, if you need more option, then import all of your Google Reader feeds to Flipboard and read them on your smartphone or tablet.įlipboard is one most popular RSS application that features attractive interface to bring latest news feeds right on your smartphone or tablet. In fact, we did wrote few alternatives like Feedly and how to make use of Twitter lists to keep track of your news feeds. It really makes short work of powering through your main content feeds, and it looks good and works well enough to vanish into the background as you use it.Google surprised us with the news that Google Reader is shutting down and there were plenty of requests from our readers to write articles on other alternatives.

Especially if you already use it on the iPad. I think this feature is the Groupon of content: fun, sexy, but ultimately not something you rely on, nor is it a feature that builds the customer loyalty that the content providers need. Flipboard may actually do it better, but I question the emphasis on algorithmic content recommendation. Several news reader apps (like Zite and News360) are likewise attempting to help readers with 'discovery' of content.

If, that is, I wasn't already a thousand articles behind in my other feeds-the subscriptions I have signed up for and the non-algorithmic feeds coming from my social connections on Twitter and Facebook.

I found, in a very brief test, that Cover Stories did a good job of finding articles I didn't know about and that I would be interested in reading.

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