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<h3>What is Google Reader?</h3>
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Google Reader is an online news aggregator that can be found at
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<a href="http://google.com/reader">http://google.com/reader</a>. To use it
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you need a Google user account. Using Google Reader you can read news feeds
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from every PC everywhere you are as long as you have a web browser.
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Google Reader (<a href="http://google.com/reader">http://google.com/reader</a>) and
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TinyTinyRSS (<a href="http://tt-rss.org/redmine/">http://tt-rss.org/redmine/</a>)
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are <b>online news aggregators</b>. To use these services you need an online user account.
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With such an account you can read your subscriptions
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<li>using any web browser on any PC</li>
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<li>or using a smartphone app</li>
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which means you can read your news simply from everywhere you are.
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<h3>Why Using Google Reader with Liferea?</h3>
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<h3>Why Using an Online News Aggregator with Liferea?</h3>
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Liferea as a desktop aggregator cannot provide the global accessibility
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a web application Google Reader. It needs to be installed and configured
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on every PC you use. Also it ensures no synchronisation between the
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that a online news aggregator provides. While you can access an online
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aggregator from virtually everywhere, Liferea needs to be installed and configured
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on every PC you use. Also it ensures no direct synchronisation between the
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different installations.
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Using Google Reader you can workaround this situation. You can subscribe
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to your Google Reader account from all your Liferea installations and
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Using an online aggregator you can workaround this situation. You can subscribe
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to your online account from all your Liferea installations and
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will have synchronous feed lists and item states everywhere. At the same
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time you can still use a web browser to log in to Google Reader directly
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time you can still use a web browser to log in to the online aggregator directly
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if you are at a public terminal for example.
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<h3>How to Subscribe</h3>
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<li>Create a Google Reader account if you not already have one.</li>
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<li>Click "New/New Source" and select "Google Reader" from the dialog.</li>
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<li>Create a online aggregator account if you not already have one.</li>
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<li>Click "New/New Source" and select "Google Reader" or "TinyTinyRSS" from the dialog.</li>
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<li>Enter you account username and password.</li>
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Shortly after subscribing the feed list of your Google Reader account
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Shortly after subscribing the feed list of your online account
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should appear and items should be retrieved.