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Should you read the websites in the original URL, should you read them in the Google Reader or should you subscribe them by email?

This is a question some people make me and I answer it here.

It starts with the number of websites you have to read, plus the search capabilities of each tool.

If you just want to keep up to date with the latest things on each website, then email and Google reader are the best options for you. They both offer you some good search tools plus you can be notified of the latest messages or feeds that are published. Google Reader will search the entire website you just subscribed so this might be a little better than Gmail, because with Gmail you will have access only to the feeds coming from now on.

Google Reader beats Gmail, but what about visiting the website?

Unless you know the website payout very well, this is not the wisest thing to do. Most websites are too big and confusing to visit. With Google Reader you can search the entire website plus you can also see he website from last to first post, just like a book.

How many websites should you subscribe?

I wish you had the time to read all the sites you want, but in case you want to keep up with all the news you want, I advise you to subscribe all the sites but read only those that really interest you, the other ones will be just for entertainment for the times you have nothing interesting to do.