Diary Reader
Description
Diary Reader is blog reader that lets you read Google Blogger /
Blogspot blogs as if they were ebooks. Diary Reader downloads
blogs onto your iPhone so that you can read the entries in
chronological order, or skip around by date or by tags. You
can resume reading where you left off, and get new postings
with one tap of a button. You can set the font to whatever
you like, save any number of blogs to a library on your
iPhone and read offline. Diary Reader is suitable for journals
and diaries, not blogs focused on photography or video clips
or opinions. With Diary Reader you can turn blogger sites into
books.
Features
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Easy to use ebook interface.
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Library for saving blogs for offline reading.
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Fully customizable fonts.
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Browse by date or tags.
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Download random blogs.(If you are really bored.)
FAQ
- Why is the random blog
button grayed out?
The random blog feature uses a particular Google Blogger
URL that needs an existing blogID to work. Diary Reader doesn't
know any blogIDs until you add at least one blog to your
library. Then it can make the random URL.
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Does Diary Reader work for Wordpress blogs?
No. Wordpress doesn't have an API for sharing blog
content. Google Blogger does, that's what makes Diary Reader
possible.
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The screen
keeps dimming. How do I prevent this?
There is a setting to disable the Idle Timer.
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When I add
random blogs to my library, sometimes I get an alert
message saying that the blog already exists in my
library. Why does this happen?
Google's random blog feature (which Diary Reader uses to pick
random blogs) is not really that random. Just cancel the
download and try again.
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For Blogs on
the blogspot.com domain, do I have to type blogspot.com
in the download blog text field all the time?
No. If you type just the first part of the blog's name,
Diary Reader will add the http:// and the blogspot.com parts
before downloading.
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What does the
Summary Only Blog alert message mean?
Blogger writers can set their blogs so that only blog
summaries are shared by the Google Blogger API. In this case
Diary Reader has to get the blog entries the hard way, fetching
them page by page. This is much more complicated than using
the API directly and that's why it's so slow. You can mess
with the Connection settings to try to make this
faster. Once the blog is downloaded though, getting new
posts is not terribly slow.