I'm currently looking for a better free RSS/XML Feed-Reader, and I am hoping that people can chime in with their recommendations of what I am looking for specifically.
I don't subscribe to many feeds, and at last count, I think I was subscribed to 3 or 4 feeds. But those feeds that I do subscribe to are massive; one feed of mine has nearly 1,000 entries, and another is well over 4,000.
What I am looking for specifically is a reader that I can integrally-search within, and one that I can read all articles from its inception. The feeds list in Opera is what I have in mind, but it too has limits, namely it only keeps track of the articles from the day you subscribe, not from when the url feed was created. I don't want a feed-reader that only updates from the time I subscribe to it, because I already have that, or only displays the 25,50,100 newest items and does not allow the previous entries to be shown. That doesn't help my specific cause at all. I think what I want is a powerful reader that not only updates with the newest articles, but also stores and lists the previous entries into a gradually-increasing back catalogue of the entire feed from day one. And from what I gather from reading and exploring the past few days online, I can't find any such RSS that will afford me this (with the limited exception of Google Reader).
I just recently figured out the backwards history with Google Reader, and I thought it was great, until I realized it doesn't save what you look at, and reverts to showing the 30 newest items. So, hitting "down" in search of that one article amongst 4,000 is like finding a needle in a flowing river; if I go past it, I have to start all over again.
So, bearing the above in mind, can anybody steer me in the right direction, or is what I'm looking for too difficult and/or "ideal" to find within the ordinary feed managers available?