The Reading Rainbow "debacle"

[artistflop]

Okay, Internet, I have a thing to say. Buckle up.

Three days ago, a Kickstarter was launched aiming to reboot Reading Rainbow as a web app for classrooms and families. The aim was to build on the exisiting iPad app, enlarge the online ebook library, and make it available to classrooms for a subscription fee, while at the same time making it

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[ali_kira]

When the Reading Rainbow campaign went viral I was sitting in a conference watching academics talk about arts and humanities topics, and watching the traffic it brought to Kickstarter was nothing less than inspiring to me: I loved Reading Rainbow as a child, and feel very strongly about making these tools available to children/classrooms/parents etc. who want them. When I got home from the conference I did indeed watch the Kickstarter video and all the updates available by that point, ready every word on the Kickstarter site, and bawled my eyes out because it felt like a great initiative. Yes I backed the project (as an avid Kickstarter user, I back many projects), and even stopped backing another project that I was less enthused about to back this one