This is why I also don't subscribe. I follow the same thinking as you commented to Libby "my web feed shows your icon in the people I follow line, with an indication of how many stories I may not have read, and I eventually catch up and I take it one step further by adding articles to my lists. It's disappointing that the app does not provide this same follow line, as a lot of my time for reading is when I am not near a computer so I look through the recommended list of whom I'm following