Reading Rainbow roaring back with RRKidz iPad app, ‘disruptive’ ebook technology in tow

LeVar Burton may best be known ’round these parts for his role in Star Trek, but he’ll soon be referred to as the fellow who made childhood reading relevant again. It wasn’t that way back that today’s up-and-coming adults were absorbing every type of useful knowledge during their summers, glued to a PBS station and doing their darndest to climb within mum’s CRT television. And now, their kids may be doing likewise — but with an iPad. Burton has plans to provide an instructional RRKidz iOS app that allows readers to “explore topics of interest in a multimedia-rich environment, with voice-over-enhanced children’s books, familiar videos of Burton at real-life places, and games.” That allows you to achieve this, he’s planning a “disruptive” technology that’ll bolster a standard PDF book with basic animations, voice-overs and games “in an issue of hours.” There isn’t any specific schedule on a release, but we’re guessing Burton’s moving along as usual pace: Mach 5.

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