Reader's Dead and Google doesn't want us to remember that.

I expect their robots.txt blocks it because (a) Reader was useless if you didn&#x27;t have an account, and (b) Reader was useless without the server-side components.<p>Why do people ascribe malice to everything?

They do allow:&#x2F;reader&#x2F;play though, which probably redirects to &#x2F;reader .