I have been playing around with Bloglines now for a few weeks and found that it works ok so long as you do not overload it with feeds. I use Newzcrawler when I have access to my laptop all of the time.
Being I am now working on a separate PC during the day with my laptop back at the hotel. My time has been limited so I have been doing what others are trying to avoid in reading the same news twice.
I have had to cut the number of feeds I read down to a level that Bloglines can handle. I am curious what the total number of feeds other users are reading on Bloglines and if they are waiting significant amounts of time waiting for the pages to load? [Bloglines.com]
My experience is that it is the Feed where Bloglines has its bugs. I.e., a couple of hundred feeds are not a problem. But when you sign up with a large new feed, e.g. the register, wired news, it initially shows up as 200 unread. clicking on the feed fails. but if you ever get the feed to “get far enough” then it will mark all those entries as read and start working fine. If Bloglines just had a way to mark a new feed as “all read” then I think it would obviate this problem.
I reported it to bloglines but just got a bot response.