A blog post can be of any length. Displaying a summary of the same and placing a Continue Reading… link is a good idea not only because it allows for more posts to be shown on the homepage but also because any visitor would continue reading only if he feels interested.
It prevents unnecessary scrolling and presents to the viewer a glance of recent posts which he is free to choose and continue reading.
I’ll show you how you can implement this in WordPress 2.7 above. There’s no need of any PHP editing of core WP files and there is no plugin. Its a very simple solution provided by the clever guys at WP.
Two ways : -
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Using Visual Editor when adding / modifying a post, click on
icon. It can be found on the Formatting bar. 
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Using HTML, you can use the tag <!—more—>
You can have a Read More / Continue Reading link just like the one at every post of CallingAllGeeks.
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nice tip, but i would like to have plugin instead of that, plugins makes it far more easy, and tidy.
@Hariharakumar
I agree that Plugins are easier but using plugins adds extra overhead to the blog, many plugins reduce loading time.
Therefore, I prefer going without plugins wherever possible