I tried an RSS app that gives you a small bit of a Project Gutenberg book every day. Big problem I had with it was that I’d often want to read more than one item of the stuff, and there wasn’t an easy way to both do that and keep the rss in sync.
The thing should generate a link to the next item in the sequence in each feed item, and make it so that clicking that link would drop the next item from the RSS sequence. And so on for the next item links in all the sequence items you read outside the feed reader. So you’d get item 3 in your RSS today, you’d get carried away and click onwards through items 4 to 9 outside your RSS reader and read those too, and tomorrow you’d get item 10 instead of item 4.
Archive Binge does something like that, though it looks like you do have to manually change it from 4 to 10. If we go with the individualized feed option, it’s definitely a good feature, but it wouldn’t work at all if we’re trying to keep people reading in sync with each other.
I imagine most people would start reading at different times anyway, so things wouldn’t be very synced by default. There should probably be a control panel for explicitly setting the next item for fixing a messed up read point and for ad hoc syncing of the next item.
I tried an RSS app that gives you a small bit of a Project Gutenberg book every day. Big problem I had with it was that I’d often want to read more than one item of the stuff, and there wasn’t an easy way to both do that and keep the rss in sync.
The thing should generate a link to the next item in the sequence in each feed item, and make it so that clicking that link would drop the next item from the RSS sequence. And so on for the next item links in all the sequence items you read outside the feed reader. So you’d get item 3 in your RSS today, you’d get carried away and click onwards through items 4 to 9 outside your RSS reader and read those too, and tomorrow you’d get item 10 instead of item 4.
Archive Binge does something like that, though it looks like you do have to manually change it from 4 to 10. If we go with the individualized feed option, it’s definitely a good feature, but it wouldn’t work at all if we’re trying to keep people reading in sync with each other.
I imagine most people would start reading at different times anyway, so things wouldn’t be very synced by default. There should probably be a control panel for explicitly setting the next item for fixing a messed up read point and for ad hoc syncing of the next item.