Gather the written word of today's great thinkers.
The essayists, scientists, builders and critics you learn from are scattered across a thousand sites. CloudRead brings what they write into one queue and walks you through it — one piece at a time, in order, with nothing deciding for you.
CloudRead is not the wisdom. The people you read are.
We built a reader, not a publisher. It does not summarise, rewrite, rank or recommend. It keeps your place in the writing of people worth reading, then sends you to their door.
How it works
Three parts. The middle one is the only part that is ours.
Pick your thinkers
Paste a feed address — or just a home page. CloudRead finds the RSS or Atom feed, and if there is none, reads the posts straight off the page.
Let the queue fill
New writing is collected as it appears and marked unread for you. Busy sources are checked often, quiet ones rarely, and an unchanged feed costs nobody anything.
Read, then next
A panel keeps your queue; the article is the author's real page beside it. Mark read, move on. Same queue on your phone when you are away from the desk.
Their words, their page, their livelihood — untouched.
Most readers extract an article's text and show it in their own frame. That is convenient for you and quietly unfair to the writer: the design they chose disappears, and so does the advertising that pays for the next piece. CloudRead does not do that.
- Every article opens on the publisher's own site, complete and unaltered.
- Their ads, sponsorships and analytics work exactly as they would for any visitor — because you are one.
- We store a headline, a link and a short excerpt to show in your queue. Nothing more.
- A site that prefers not to be shown inside a frame is opened in its own tab instead.
Built for reading, not for engagement
No infinite feed, no clever ordering, no notifications. Just the things that make a long reading list livable.
Feeds or plain pages
RSS, Atom, or a blog with neither — CloudRead reads the posts off the page itself.
In order, at your pace
Newest first, all sources or one at a time. Your place is kept on every device.
Keyboard native
M marks read and moves on, J skips, K goes back, O opens the page in its own tab.
On your phone
The Android app shows each article full-screen with one slim row of buttons to move on.
Polite to publishers
Sources are checked on their own rhythm, with conditional requests, never hammered.
Yours to leave
Plain feeds in, plain links out. No lock-in, no dark patterns, no feed of ours to keep you scrolling.
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; but to weigh and consider.Francis Bacon, Of Studies, 1625
The same queue, in your pocket.
The app shows each article full-screen on the author's site, with one slim strip of buttons across the top to mark read and move on. Sign in once; it stays signed in.
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