diff --git a/vue/src/components/AppNav.vue b/vue/src/components/AppNav.vue
index eeb7f61..30034a2 100644
--- a/vue/src/components/AppNav.vue
+++ b/vue/src/components/AppNav.vue
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import { RouterLink, useRouter } from 'vue-router'
 import { useFeeds } from '@/composables/useFeeds'
 
 const router = useRouter()
-const { sync, showModal, viewMode, toggleViewMode, markAllRead } = useFeeds()
+const { sync, showModal, viewMode, toggleViewMode, layout, toggleLayout, markAllRead } = useFeeds()
 
 const menuOpen = ref(false)
 
@@ -42,6 +42,11 @@ function handleToggleViewMode() {
   toggleViewMode()
   closeMenu()
 }
+
+function handleToggleLayout() {
+  toggleLayout()
+  closeMenu()
+}
 </script>
 
 <template>
@@ -74,6 +79,9 @@ function handleToggleViewMode() {
           <button class="app-nav__menu-item" type="button" @click="handleToggleViewMode">
             {{ viewMode === 'list' ? 'Article view' : 'List view' }}
           </button>
+          <button v-if="viewMode === 'list'" class="app-nav__menu-item" type="button" @click="handleToggleLayout">
+            {{ layout === 'list' ? 'Card layout' : 'List layout' }}
+          </button>
           <button class="app-nav__menu-item" type="button" @click="handleSync">Sync</button>
           <button class="app-nav__menu-item" type="button" @click="handleMarkAllRead">Mark all as read</button>
           <button class="app-nav__menu-item" type="button" @click="openAddModal">Add RSS</button>
diff --git a/vue/src/components/RssFeeds.vue b/vue/src/components/RssFeeds.vue
index 5c96784..49ac2bf 100644
--- a/vue/src/components/RssFeeds.vue
+++ b/vue/src/components/RssFeeds.vue
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ const {
   showModal,
   viewMode,
   currentIndex,
+  leaveArticleView,
+  layout,
   nextArticle,
   prevArticle,
   fetchData,
@@ -38,7 +40,7 @@ onMounted(async () => {
   <div>
     <div v-if="showMessage" class="message">{{ message }}</div>
 
-    <div v-if="viewMode === 'list'" id='article' class='article'>
+    <div v-if="viewMode === 'list'" id='article' class='article' :class="{ 'article--cards': layout === 'cards' }">
       <p v-if="feeds.length == 0">No unread articles.</p>
       <template v-for="(   feed, index   ) in    feeds   ">
         <div v-bind:id="index" class="observe">
@@ -48,13 +50,13 @@ onMounted(async () => {
           <p v-if="!feed.readable" class="feed-original-link">
             <a :href="feed.url" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Read original article &#8599;</a>
           </p>
-          <p class="feed-content" v-html='feed.content'></p>
+          <p class="feed-content" :class="{ 'feed-content--clamped': layout === 'cards' && !feed.readable }" v-html='feed.content'></p>
         </div>
       </template>
     </div>
 
     <div v-else class="article-single">
-      <button type="button" class="article-single__back" @click="viewMode = 'list'">&larr; Back to list</button>
+      <button type="button" class="article-single__back" @click="leaveArticleView">&larr; Back to list</button>
       <p v-if="feeds.length == 0">No unread articles.</p>
       <template v-else>
         <p class="feed-source">{{ feeds[currentIndex].feedTitle }}</p>
@@ -87,6 +89,46 @@ onMounted(async () => {
 </template>
 
 <style scoped>
+.article--cards {
+  display: grid;
+  grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fill, minmax(260px, 1fr));
+  align-items: start;
+  gap: 1rem;
+}
+
+.article--cards .observe {
+  display: flex;
+  flex-direction: column;
+  border: 1px solid var(--color-border);
+  border-radius: 8px;
+  overflow: hidden;
+  background: var(--color-background-soft);
+}
+
+.article--cards .feed-title {
+  border-bottom: none;
+}
+
+.article--cards h3 {
+  margin: 0;
+  padding: 0 1em 0.5em;
+}
+
+.article--cards .feed-content {
+  flex: 1;
+}
+
+.article--cards .feed-content--clamped {
+  display: -webkit-box;
+  -webkit-box-orient: vertical;
+  -webkit-line-clamp: 4;
+  overflow: hidden;
+}
+
+.article--cards .feed-content img {
+  display: none;
+}
+
 .feed-original-link a {
   display: inline-flex;
   align-items: center;
diff --git a/vue/src/components/__tests__/AppNav.spec.js b/vue/src/components/__tests__/AppNav.spec.js
index 604101d..642357d 100644
--- a/vue/src/components/__tests__/AppNav.spec.js
+++ b/vue/src/components/__tests__/AppNav.spec.js
@@ -15,13 +15,14 @@ describe('AppNav', () => {
     localStorage.setItem('user-id', '7')
     vi.clearAllMocks()
 
-    const { feeds, showMessage, message, showModal, viewMode, currentIndex } = useFeeds()
+    const { feeds, showMessage, message, showModal, viewMode, currentIndex, layout } = useFeeds()
     feeds.value = []
     showMessage.value = false
     message.value = ''
     showModal.value = false
     viewMode.value = 'list'
     currentIndex.value = 0
+    layout.value = 'list'
 
     router = createRouter({
       history: createWebHistory(),
@@ -104,6 +105,26 @@ describe('AppNav', () => {
     expect(wrapper.find('.app-nav__menu').exists()).toBe(false)
   })
 
+  it('switches the list layout from the menu and closes it', async () => {
+    const wrapper = await mountWithMenuOpen()
+    const { layout } = useFeeds()
+
+    const layoutButton = wrapper.findAll('.app-nav__menu-item').find(el => el.text() === 'Card layout')
+    await layoutButton.trigger('click')
+
+    expect(layout.value).toBe('cards')
+    expect(wrapper.find('.app-nav__menu').exists()).toBe(false)
+  })
+
+  it('hides the layout toggle while in article view', async () => {
+    const { viewMode } = useFeeds()
+    viewMode.value = 'article'
+
+    const wrapper = await mountWithMenuOpen()
+
+    expect(wrapper.findAll('.app-nav__menu-item').find(el => el.text().includes('layout'))).toBeUndefined()
+  })
+
   it('marks all articles as read from the menu after confirmation', async () => {
     const { feeds } = useFeeds()
     feeds.value = [
diff --git a/vue/src/components/__tests__/RssFeeds.spec.js b/vue/src/components/__tests__/RssFeeds.spec.js
index 637c006..551729b 100644
--- a/vue/src/components/__tests__/RssFeeds.spec.js
+++ b/vue/src/components/__tests__/RssFeeds.spec.js
@@ -23,13 +23,14 @@ describe('RssFeeds', () => {
 
     // useFeeds() returns module-level singleton refs shared across the whole
     // app (and this spec file) — reset them so state doesn't leak between tests.
-    const { feeds, showMessage, message, showModal, viewMode, currentIndex } = useFeeds()
+    const { feeds, showMessage, message, showModal, viewMode, currentIndex, layout } = useFeeds()
     feeds.value = []
     showMessage.value = false
     message.value = ''
     showModal.value = false
     viewMode.value = 'list'
     currentIndex.value = 0
+    layout.value = 'list'
   })
 
   it('fetches the current user articles and shows the empty state', async () => {
@@ -70,6 +71,72 @@ describe('RssFeeds', () => {
     expect(wrapper.text()).not.toContain('No unread articles.')
   })
 
+  it('renders the list as cards when the card layout is selected', async () => {
+    axios.get.mockResolvedValueOnce({
+      data: {
+        feeds: [
+          {
+            title: 'My Feed',
+            items: [
+              {
+                id: 1,
+                title: 'Article one',
+                content: '<p>hello</p>',
+                url: 'https://example.test/1',
+                timestamp: '2026-01-01',
+              },
+            ],
+          },
+        ],
+      },
+    })
+
+    const { layout } = useFeeds()
+    layout.value = 'cards'
+
+    const wrapper = mount(RssFeeds)
+    await flushPromises()
+
+    expect(wrapper.find('.article').classes()).toContain('article--cards')
+  })
+
+  it('lets a card grow to fit the full article once its readable content has loaded', async () => {
+    axios.get.mockResolvedValueOnce({
+      data: {
+        feeds: [
+          {
+            title: 'My Feed',
+            items: [
+              {
+                id: 1,
+                title: 'Article one',
+                content: '<p>short summary</p>',
+                url: 'https://example.test/1',
+                timestamp: '2026-01-01',
+              },
+            ],
+          },
+        ],
+      },
+    })
+    axios.post.mockResolvedValueOnce({ data: { content: '<html><body><article><p>full text</p></article></body></html>' } })
+
+    const { layout } = useFeeds()
+    layout.value = 'cards'
+
+    const wrapper = mount(RssFeeds)
+    await flushPromises()
+
+    // Clamped to a fixed number of lines while only the short summary is shown...
+    expect(wrapper.find('.feed-content').classes()).toContain('feed-content--clamped')
+
+    await wrapper.find('.feed-title').trigger('click')
+    await flushPromises()
+
+    // ...but allowed to grow once the user has loaded the full readable article.
+    expect(wrapper.find('.feed-content').classes()).not.toContain('feed-content--clamped')
+  })
+
   it('sorts articles by date across feeds, newest first', async () => {
     axios.get.mockResolvedValueOnce({
       data: {
@@ -209,4 +276,58 @@ describe('RssFeeds', () => {
 
     expect(wrapper.find('.article-single .feed-title').text()).toBe('Article one')
   })
+
+  it('drops articles read while paging through article view once back in the list', async () => {
+    axios.get.mockResolvedValueOnce({
+      data: {
+        feeds: [
+          {
+            title: 'My Feed',
+            items: [
+              {
+                id: 1,
+                title: 'Article one',
+                content: '<p>one</p>',
+                url: 'https://example.test/1',
+                timestamp: '2026-03-01 10:00:00',
+              },
+              {
+                id: 2,
+                title: 'Article two',
+                content: '<p>two</p>',
+                url: 'https://example.test/2',
+                timestamp: '2026-02-01 10:00:00',
+              },
+              {
+                id: 3,
+                title: 'Article three',
+                content: '<p>three</p>',
+                url: 'https://example.test/3',
+                timestamp: '2026-01-01 10:00:00',
+              },
+            ],
+          },
+        ],
+      },
+    })
+    axios.put.mockResolvedValue({ status: 200 })
+
+    const wrapper = mount(RssFeeds)
+    await flushPromises()
+
+    const { toggleViewMode, leaveArticleView } = useFeeds()
+
+    // Enter article view (marks "Article one" read), page forward to "Article
+    // two" (marks it read too), then leave without visiting "Article three".
+    toggleViewMode()
+    await flushPromises()
+    await wrapper.findAll('.article-nav__btn')[1].trigger('click')
+    await flushPromises()
+
+    leaveArticleView()
+    await flushPromises()
+
+    const titles = wrapper.findAll('.feed-title').map(el => el.text())
+    expect(titles).toEqual(['Article three'])
+  })
 })
diff --git a/vue/src/composables/__tests__/useFeeds.spec.js b/vue/src/composables/__tests__/useFeeds.spec.js
index 34d422f..ded94fe 100644
--- a/vue/src/composables/__tests__/useFeeds.spec.js
+++ b/vue/src/composables/__tests__/useFeeds.spec.js
@@ -118,6 +118,34 @@ describe('useFeeds', () => {
     expect(feeds.value[0].content).not.toMatch(/src="[^"]*(\$\{|%7[bB])/)
   })
 
+  it('resolves templated images regardless of the placeholder name and scrubs other lazy-load attributes', async () => {
+    feeds.value = [{
+      id: 1,
+      title: 'Article one',
+      url: 'https://www.dw.com/en/article-one/a-1',
+      content: '',
+    }]
+    axios.post.mockResolvedValueOnce({
+      data: {
+        content: `<html><body><article>
+          <img data-format="MASTER_LANDSCAPE" data-id="76212061"
+               data-url="https://static.dw.com/image/76212061_\${size}.jpg"
+               data-src="https://static.dw.com/image/76212061_\${size}.jpg"
+               alt="Merz and Trump" src="data:image/gif;base64,placeholder">
+          <p>some article text long enough for readability to keep the image and paragraph together in the parsed output, padded with extra words to pass the content-length heuristics used by Mozilla Readability when scoring candidate nodes for the main article body.</p>
+        </article></body></html>`,
+      },
+    })
+
+    await getReadable(feeds.value[0], 0)
+
+    // `${size}` isn't the hardcoded `${formatId}` placeholder, but `data-format`
+    // is still the right substitution — and lazy-load attributes like `data-src`
+    // (which Readability may promote into `src`) must be cleaned too, not just
+    // `data-url`, so a stale template can't resurface in the rendered output.
+    expect(feeds.value[0].content).not.toMatch(/src="[^"]*(\$\{|%7[bB])/)
+  })
+
   it('drops unresolvable templated images instead of leaving a broken src', async () => {
     feeds.value = [{
       id: 1,
diff --git a/vue/src/composables/useFeeds.js b/vue/src/composables/useFeeds.js
index 9470dd6..4ef08d3 100644
--- a/vue/src/composables/useFeeds.js
+++ b/vue/src/composables/useFeeds.js
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ const message = ref('')
 const showModal = ref(false)
 const viewMode = ref('list') // 'list' | 'article' — toggled from the hamburger menu
 const currentIndex = ref(0)
+const layout = ref('list') // 'list' | 'cards' — list-view display style, toggled from the hamburger menu
 
 let observer; // Declare observer outside the setup function
 let initialLoad = false
@@ -23,18 +24,33 @@ function authHeaders() {
   }
 }
 
-// Some feeds (e.g. Deutsche Welle) ship <img> tags whose `src`/`data-url`
-// contain an unresolved `${formatId}` template that their own frontend fills
-// in from the sibling `data-format` attribute before loading — verbatim they
-// 404. Resolve them the same way here, or drop the <img> if we can't, so
-// Readability doesn't carry a broken image into the parsed article.
+// Some feeds (e.g. Deutsche Welle) ship <img> tags whose `src` and various
+// lazy-load attributes (`data-url`, `data-src`, `srcset`, ...) contain an
+// unresolved `${placeholderName}` template — or its URL-encoded `%7B...%7D`
+// form — that their own frontend fills in from the sibling `data-format`
+// attribute before loading; verbatim they 404. Resolve every such attribute
+// the same way (so Readability's own lazy-image handling can't resurrect a
+// stale template into `src`), preferring `data-url` as the source of truth
+// for `src`, and drop the <img> entirely if a template still remains.
+const TEMPLATE_PATTERN = /\$\{[^}]+\}|%7[bB][^%]*%7[dD]/
+const TEMPLATE_PATTERN_GLOBAL = /\$\{[^}]+\}|%7[bB][^%]*%7[dD]/g
+
 function resolveTemplatedImage(img) {
-  const placeholder = '${formatId}'
   const format = img.getAttribute('data-format')
   const dataUrl = img.getAttribute('data-url')
-  if (format && dataUrl && dataUrl.includes(placeholder)) {
-    img.setAttribute('src', dataUrl.replace(placeholder, format))
-  } else if (/[{]|%7[bB]/.test(img.getAttribute('src') ?? '')) {
+
+  if (format) {
+    if (dataUrl && TEMPLATE_PATTERN.test(dataUrl)) {
+      img.setAttribute('src', dataUrl.replace(TEMPLATE_PATTERN_GLOBAL, format))
+    }
+    for (const attr of [...img.attributes]) {
+      if (attr.name !== 'src' && TEMPLATE_PATTERN.test(attr.value)) {
+        img.setAttribute(attr.name, attr.value.replace(TEMPLATE_PATTERN_GLOBAL, format))
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  if (TEMPLATE_PATTERN.test(img.getAttribute('src') ?? '')) {
     img.remove()
   }
 }
@@ -175,17 +191,36 @@ function markCurrentArticleRead() {
   const feed = feeds.value[currentIndex.value]
   // Marking read here (rather than via removeFeed, as the scroll-based list
   // view does) keeps the array stable so currentIndex stays valid while paging.
-  if (feed) markRead(feed.id)
+  // The local `read` flag lets leaveArticleView() drop these once we're done.
+  if (feed) {
+    feed.read = true
+    markRead(feed.id)
+  }
+}
+
+function leaveArticleView() {
+  // Articles paged past in article view were marked read but deliberately kept
+  // in place so currentIndex stayed valid — drop them now so they don't keep
+  // showing up in the list view.
+  feeds.value = feeds.value.filter(feed => !feed.read)
+  currentIndex.value = 0
+  viewMode.value = 'list'
 }
 
 function toggleViewMode() {
-  viewMode.value = viewMode.value === 'list' ? 'article' : 'list'
   if (viewMode.value === 'article') {
+    leaveArticleView()
+  } else {
+    viewMode.value = 'article'
     currentIndex.value = 0
     markCurrentArticleRead()
   }
 }
 
+function toggleLayout() {
+  layout.value = layout.value === 'list' ? 'cards' : 'list'
+}
+
 function nextArticle() {
   if (currentIndex.value < feeds.value.length - 1) {
     currentIndex.value += 1
@@ -209,6 +244,9 @@ export function useFeeds() {
     viewMode,
     currentIndex,
     toggleViewMode,
+    leaveArticleView,
+    layout,
+    toggleLayout,
     nextArticle,
     prevArticle,
     fetchData,