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Google Reader has been active for 8 years. That's longer than most technology products. In addition, there are countless alternatives to choose from, and you can easily get your data out of Reader and move to one of those countless alternatives.

This whole thing has been so overblown. It's like everyone is bored or something.

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I have hundreds of starred articles which unless someone makes a replacement for Google Reader is going to disappear come July. For me it's like losing years worth of bookmarks.

And I hope that you post the same thing if/when Google discontinues Google Mail.

I have a 7.39MB starred.json from my Reader takeout. And Feedly is showing saved articles from over four years ago (long before I tried Feedly the first time), so it probably imported them.

Well, strictly speaking, starred messages are included in OPML bundle that you can download. Even if you don't get complete replacement for GReader, you can still extract information from that file, it's just JSON.

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