I finally gave up hope on Google Reader changing their mind and bit the bullet and switched to feedly. I changed the settings to make it look more like Reader and am slowly getting used to it. But I'm still not happy!
I like feedly, but I can't figure out how to mark a post as unread if I accidentally open it or if I need to abandon it halfway through for some reason. I know I can save it for later...but the mark as unread would be more helpful.
In the browser version at the top of the article there's a "keep unread" link. I don't know about the mobile versions, I have only used it in my browser so far.