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Need Your Suggestions: RSS Reader for Windows PC

I have been happy with a podcast player's feed reader on my Android for some time,

but I am about to give up because its screen size makes it difficult to read long articles and need an app for windows PC (getting the full text then let me read them offline)

I would appreciate your guidance on the best recommended RSS readers for Windows PC that are:

Visually good app  for a Windows Laptop

Able to get the feeds with full text then let me read them offline
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[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I like Fluent Reader, it looks nice, can fetch full articles, and IIRC caches them locally for offline viewing, don't quote me on that last one though.

[–] scheep@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

fluent reader is good!

[–] Flmaker@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Thank you, I have just tried that. Fluent Reader doesn't cache

so far the only one which has been suggested is Chaski is the one I like ,

but you need to be online to retrieve the full articles one by one first, then it lets you read the full article offline

Nothing like a podcast player which always downloads the full article, to be read offline

[–] PandaInSpace@kbin.earth 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Flmaker@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Thank you , so far the only one which has been suggested is Chaski is the one I like ,

but you need to be online to retrieve the full articles one by one first, then it lets you read the full article offline

Nothing like a podcast player which always downloads the full article, to be read offline

[–] Termight@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

FeedBro because of the rules

[–] Flmaker@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Thank you for that I have been testing it right now and trying to get the full articles at once through the rules if any, unable to find a solution yet, will search further if I could get the full articles at once for offline reading

Update: Unable to get the full article. other than the original page view

Followed the following info, it doesn't always work

Convert Partial Articles in Feeds to Full-Text Articles

Feedbro has built-in engine for transforming partial text feed articles
 to full-text articles. This feature is not automatically on for all feeds 
and must be enabled per feed. 
To do that, right-click the feed in the feed tree and select 
Properties. Then use "Feed Entry Content" for adjusting full text 
extraction settings. Click "Preview" button to check that 
you get desired results and then press "Save".

Note that obviously full-text option should not be used 
if the feed already 
provides full articles. Also the full-text conversion doesn't 
work for all feeds and sites but it works pretty well 
for majority of sites. 

so far the only one which has been suggested is Chaski is the one I like ,

but you need to be online to retrieve the full article one by one first, then it lets you read the full article offline

Nothing like a podcast player which always downloads the full article, to be read offline