Man, I don't know how I'd do it without a news reader. Beforehand I had a list of like 10-20 sites I would hit for news and it took me 30-60 minutes to do it depending on how active the sites were. Now I can go through 5-10x that many feeds in the same amount of time.

I'm not sure how the RSS reader market is on Windows... On the Mac there are a ton of apps and it's a very popular area. I know Windows has a few newsreaders, but I don't think it's caught on quite yet.