The Dream Library

After a persuasive conversation with caladrius, I spent a bit of this last week setting up Google Reader to handle all the comics I currently read. I was a bit surprised how many of my comics have an official RSS feed – those were easy. About a third of my current crowd do not have a feed, though, which was originally a dealbreaker.
Found a solution, though – Dapper allows me to create a feed by parsing an existing webpage. The interface is point-and-drool, pretty easy, and works neatly for all of the ‘normal’ comics I’ve got. Sequential Art doesn’t work so hot, probably because the page is bizarrely dynamic, with cookie-based memory of where I left off reading kinda stuff. I’ll have to tinker and see if I can sort a way to make it behave. The rest work, tho.
All in all, RSS seems to be arriving at a point I could get hooked on; a way to render unnecessary the addict-like refreshing of half-a-dozen websites in favor of just keeping an eye on one…

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