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Mark Woodman has a useful piece on using Google Reader to make a reading list in place of services like del.icio.us or Blinklist:

Sometimes as a blogger you don’t want to create a new entry just to report an interesting article you found. A much nicer solution is to provide a Reading List of sorts, similar to the point of a blogroll, but at an item level. The ideal Reading List would directly include the content to be read, rather than just a link to it, and be published in Atom or RSS for the convenience of your audience.

In this article I’ll show you how to use Google Reader and FeedBurner to manage a reading list for your audience.

There are two critical problems in this approach though; one, you can’t add your own notes, something I do in my del.icio.us list all the time. Two, you can’t share items that are not from feeds. If a friend emails you a website rather than putting it in their feed you can’t get it into Google Reader and so can’t have it in your reading list.

Until Google Reader allows “manually adding items” and allows for notes or a description to be attached to an item it isn’t a usable trick. A shame really.

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