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For the past 6 months I’ve been an alpha tester using FeedLounge exclusively as my feed reader. I’ve been fairly satisfied with it, but this past week I’ve been weening myself off of it and moving to Google’s Reader. Today marks the first day that I didn’t have a “FeedLounge tab” in my browser. I moved away from FeedLounge for 2 reasons:

1. I’m cheap.
2. I’m not a power user.

The original plan for FeedLounge was to offer free accounts and paid accounts. I was hopeful that my needs would be met by a free account. However, it was recently stated that they’d initially be offering only paid accounts. IOW, I’d have to pay for the service come March 16th if they didn’t come up with a way to offer free accounts by that time. True to my Dutch roots, I had a hard time coming up with a good reason to pay for this service.

Finally, it turns out I’m not a power user, which FeedLounge touts as its target user. I subscribe to about 60 feeds. I originally thought that I’d use the nifty tagging features in FeedLounge. It turns out I didn’t. Most of the time, all I want to do is go through all my unread items, and perhaps occasionally mark an item to come back to later. Google Reader meets these simple needs.