The Reading Settings group relates to front page displays and feed output options. It contains the following items:

• Blog Pages Show at Most: How many blog pages you want to show, at most.
• Syndication Feeds Show the Most Recent: Determine the number of recent syndication feeds to show.
• For Each Article in a Feed, Show: Determines whether to show full or summary text in a feed.
• Encoding for Pages and Feeds: The character encoding you write your blog in – UTF-8 is default and recommended.