Is a free reader a person that reads for free at a bookstore?

     Today’s post will talk about free readers and the one that I chose to use for this class.  I will also be discussing five different blogs that I decided to follow and the reasons why?  At first; when I saw the word free readers; I thought that is what was a new term for people that sit at book stores and read the books without purchasing them.  That’s the wrong answer. 

   

  A free reader is an app where you can manage all your blogs.  You can read all posts from the different blogs by visiting this one app/webpage.  While searching on “Google” for free readers; I came upon an article on livewire.com titled Top 7 Free Online RSS Readers.  The article mentioned the following free readers:  Feedly, The Old Reader, Feedreader.com, Diggreader, Newsblur, Inoreader, and G2Reader.  After reading the descriptions, I was torn between Feedly and Feeder.

Looking at the differences between them I noticed that Feeder had a Google Chrome extension and had a dedicated IOS app.  This was important to me because I own an Apple iPhone 7 and our school has us use Google Chrome as our web browser.  But ultimately, I chose Feedly because it was the most popular; which means that I could get help from people on the net easier than the others.  It can also link my Youtube subscriptions; which is an added plus. 

     I initially decided to follow the following blogs, with the intention to add more through out the year. They are:

a.       AASL Blog http://knowledgequest.aasl.org/  posts articles and editorials from the Journal of American Association of School Librarians.

b.     Library of Congress http://blogs.loc.gov/loc posts pictures, articles and other information from the Library of Congress website.

c.      Mrs. Reader Pants http://www.readerpants.net/   posts articles, book reviews and other fun stuff from veteran librarian, Leigh Collazo who is in her 14^th year as a librarian in an international school in China.

d.     School Library Journal http://www.slj.com/ posts articles, editorials and other information from the School Library Journal.  It also provides a link to other blogs from librarians and readers from around the world.

e.      YALSA blog http://yalsa.ala.org/blog/ posts blogs, articles, journals and other information from the Young Adult Library Services Association webpage.

f.      Mighty Little Librarian  http://www.mightylittlelibrarian.com posts articles, book reviews and other information from Tiffany Whitehead, a librarian from Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

     For the most part I chose these blogs because they were publishing at least once or more a week. Other blogs that came up in my search were posting once a month or less. I wanted to be able to be kept abreast of any new information that would be vital to my learning.  

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