ryan l.

I love Google Reader. It’s simple, effective, and has very few issues. But this post isn’t about Reader, but rather it’s sharing feature, which so many love, myself included.

I do a lot of reading, both blogs and traditional stuff, and love to share the posts/articles I find interesting, even if no one reads them. It’s just a nice way to catalog things I either want to read again in the future or just keep track of if I need to cite a source. The problem comes when I’m not subscribed to the feed of an outlet that produces one of these posts I want to share. For instance, this one. I want to share it, or bookmark it if you will, but since I don’t subscribe to that particular RSS feature, my options are limited. I don’t want to subscribe just to share, it’s not that important, but it’s something I’d like the ability to do.

I wish the Google Reader team would create a bookmarklet, or something similar, that would enable to me to share posts that I don’t subscribe to. It would totally increase the utility of the product, at least for me.

But maybe I’m missing something that already exists (?).