Yea, I saw that too and thought it was a bit short-sighted to base it on that library. The calendar command is nice if you're integrating with something that doesn't play nicely with .ics, but other than that this is pretty ho-hum at the moment.

Apologies for a clumsy touch-screen downvote.

I've put a bit of work into a python library for Google Reader: http://github.com/askedrelic/libgreader

There is another Perl library on github that supports pretty much everything Reader does.

The Reader API has unofficially existed for awhile, but they don't seem to mind you using it. They just added OAuth support a few months ago as well.

I've created a basic ruby version for google reader. http://github.com/nudded/GoogleReaderAPI