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You aren't supposed to read them all. The point is that you can skim everything so quickly and find the items that DO interest you much more easily and quickly. It is a sorting mechanism.
I have yet to find a better system than a well managed RSS reader for gathering, sorting, and filtering information that is timely and relevant to my interests.
I switched over to NewsBar for OS X. I'd still honestly prefer Reader, but NewsBar is a decent substitute.
Every dealnews post I see is in an RSS reader. With things like news sites and blogs, I can do all my reading directly from the RSS reader.
And it is all listed neatly in one list, showing how many unread articles I have at each place (and I have them categorized by type... I can also see the aggregate unread count for each category). I see a headline and a synopsis of everything from everywhere. I can quickly skim hundreds of items and grab the few that are relevant to me.
I don't understand why more people don't use RSS readers. Would you rather have to go to 30 different news stands and have to get 30 different articles to read the content of one magazine... or get one magazine mailed to your house? It's basically the same concept.
I can probably see 10x-30x the content a non-RSS browser would see... and find more of the practical content.