The Big Read Blog generates an RSS feed. You can subscribe to The Big Read Blog by entering http://www.arts.gov/bigreadblog/ in your RSS feed Reader.

What is an RSS Feed?

An RSS feed allows a user to learn when new content has been added to a site without having to return to the site directly. A site that displays the icon in the browser address field or elsewhere on the browser provides an RSS feed.

Using a program called a feed ‘Reader’ or ‘Aggregator’, the user ’subscribes’ by adding a link to the designated content source; the Reader can then check the subscribed feeds to see if any of those feeds have new content since the last time it checked, and if so, retrieve that content.

Many browsers have integrated support for RSS feeds (e.g. IE 7, Firefox and Safari) requiring simple bookmarking. Web-based feed readers such as Google Reader and Bloglines require no software installation and make the user’s “feeds” available on any computer with Web access. Standalone readers such as Feed Reader and Sharp Reader can be installed on your computer.