Blogs like, Gawker for example, offers only a headline and a short excerpt in their RSS feeds so that you have to leave your Google Reader to read the full news story. 

There are many services like FullTextRSSFeed and FeedEx can quickly transform partial RSS feeds into full-text feeds but with certain obvious limitations. First, these services can only process a limited number of feed items per day so the transformation may not work with high-volume feeds. Second, when you convert a partial feed into a full feed, you are actually creating a new RSS feed and this will only exist as long as the conversion service is in business.

If you are a Google Chrome user, there’s however a much better option that will give you the best of both worlds. You will be able to read the full text of a story inside Google Reader itself using Super Google Reader.

Features of Super Google Reader:

• - Full feed content on a per-feed or folder basis
• - Provides 3 modes for viewing an entry:
  • - Readable entry content from the source of the feed, parsed to extract only the most important content
  • - View the entry link in an iframe that has it’s height adjusted to the correct size of the entry page
  • - Original feed entry
• Works in Expanded or List views
• Display the hostname of the entry in the subject line (optional).
• Pre-fetch readable content for unread entries (optional).
• Specialized readable content for popular entry types such as youtube videos, vimeo videos and wikipedia pages
• All settings are transparently built into Google Reader.
• Keyboard shortcuts when viewing an entry:
  • 8: Readable content
  • 9: Iframe content
  • 0: Original feed content

How to Convert Partial RSS Feeds into Full Text inside Google Reader

• First install the Super Google Reader extension inside Chrome
• This will add a new menu called “Super Settings” to your feeds page.
• Then choose the “Readable” option for all the partial RSS feeds that are you are subscribed to in Google Reader.
• The next time you expand a partial item inside Google Reader, this extension will automatically fetch the full content of that page in real-time and will display it in place of excerpts

Note: After installing the extension, you will need to reload your Google Reader tab if you already have it open.