There are decent readers out there. Liferea or Thunderbird will do in a pinch, and much as I hate to admit it, Netvibes is actually superb.<p>The tragedy isn&#x27;t some Google tool being retired, the tragedy is the way feeds are slowly disappearing. It&#x27;s a slow and creeping death, but it&#x27;s a death. More and more sites are dropping their feeds and replacing them with some twitterish Facebook nonsense.<p>[edit: typo]