Reading feeds on a nearly-daily basis
Oct. 15th, 2012 09:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackThere are a lot of webcomics and blogs I read intermittently that have some sort of ongoing story, so the reading pattern I really want to follow is:
1. Feel a bit bored.
2. Go to the last update on this comic/blog I read.
3. Read from there forward until I get bored of it or get up to the present.
4. Go do something productive.
5. Repeat.
However, what I end up doing is:
1. Go to read something I've not read for a while
2. See spoilers on what's going to happen in today's update
3. Spend five minutes faffing looking for the last update I read
4. Read forward from there.
5. Say "sod it", I should give up entirely xor read it every day.
Now maybe "sod it" is the right answer, but can anyone think of a better approach?
* Ideally there'd be a browser plugin which lets me bookmark a date, but when I click "next" automatically updates the bookmark. (Although that may fail with comics where the latest update redirects to the home page.)
* Or maybe, just have a "stuff I'm reading" browser window, and leave it open all the time. Except (a) it's annoying if it's ever accidentally closed and (b) it would have 50+ tabs and (c) is there an easy way to share that between computers
* Alternatively, I could subscribe to RSS updates, and then read from the "last unread" or "last nondeleted" forward? But not everything has a good RSS feed.
I feel like I'm probably missing an obvious way of reading intermittent updates that everyone does by default. (Other than "not bother", I'd find it easier to go cold turkey if I have the option of reading stuff if I like, rather than having to cut out everything at once.)
1. Feel a bit bored.
2. Go to the last update on this comic/blog I read.
3. Read from there forward until I get bored of it or get up to the present.
4. Go do something productive.
5. Repeat.
However, what I end up doing is:
1. Go to read something I've not read for a while
2. See spoilers on what's going to happen in today's update
3. Spend five minutes faffing looking for the last update I read
4. Read forward from there.
5. Say "sod it", I should give up entirely xor read it every day.
Now maybe "sod it" is the right answer, but can anyone think of a better approach?
* Ideally there'd be a browser plugin which lets me bookmark a date, but when I click "next" automatically updates the bookmark. (Although that may fail with comics where the latest update redirects to the home page.)
* Or maybe, just have a "stuff I'm reading" browser window, and leave it open all the time. Except (a) it's annoying if it's ever accidentally closed and (b) it would have 50+ tabs and (c) is there an easy way to share that between computers
* Alternatively, I could subscribe to RSS updates, and then read from the "last unread" or "last nondeleted" forward? But not everything has a good RSS feed.
I feel like I'm probably missing an obvious way of reading intermittent updates that everyone does by default. (Other than "not bother", I'd find it easier to go cold turkey if I have the option of reading stuff if I like, rather than having to cut out everything at once.)