New RSS Reading Feature

Now, when viewing RSS feed items that have links included in their content you can see a site thumbnail of the location and you can directly add that link to your wURLdBook content too. You can also opt to open the link in a new window (that's happens anyway though).

Notice, on the top of the site thumbnail there are two links included that allow you to add and open the link.

I thought it would be cool to see some of the places without having to actually go there just to get a feel for the location also, there were some links that I found compelling enough that I didn't want to visit the site to web reference it. Now, it's super convenient to add stuff from the RSS content to your own stuff.

I did this as a result of noticing that some RSS content's links and images were broken so I wrote some routines to detect and remove the badly formed html. While I was in there I decided to add a little bit more. The new feature should work most of the time.
Some RSS feeds include ads which I now extract and throw away too. Yipee!

Hopefully, you all will like this new feature and find it useful. I do!!

There is one draw back in that I edit the RSS content as the feed gets checked so you all will see a lot of updated items in your reading list. That should only happen once, provided I don't find bugs and have to release the feature again. Anyway, that will be the reason if you notice that a lot of your feeds that have links embeded in the content have been updated.

UPDATE: Please note it will take a little time for this feature to be seen because the feeds have to change and be updated. When that happens the new site thumbs and tools will become available.