Saw this thread and the donation page in the morning around 8:30ish.
Only $87K were donated. Checked back again now goal is almost reached at $970K. Damn, that was fast.
Hell yeah, I still have like11 eps from various seasons on my hard drive.
Some kids sucked at reading because their parents took the lazy way out and assumed it was somebody else’s responsibility to make sure their kids were literate instead of teaching their own kids. These kids sucked at reading, and hated it, and as adults don’t read anything printed outside of the sports section. Protip: your kids are better readers if YOU teach them, not somebody who has his hands full with like 30 other kids, too. As a bibliophile, I believe that basic literacy is something kids should already have before the public miseducation system gets it’s claws into them.
We need the holy triumvirate back: Reading Rainbow, ABC Weekend Specials, and CBS Storybreak.
Yeah. My parents took me to book stores and libraries and book fairs whenever they could. Even my younger sisters (11 and 9) ask me if I can order them books through my amazon prime account so they can get to read whatever they wanted in 2 days. I was in elementary school when I read Stephen King and random ass Grisham books just out of boredom. But it is so easy to see kids who were discouraged by reading and never got into it even in adulthood. That being said, I should hit some more novels again. I only get through 1 or 2 a year when I used to bust them out every month or two.
Don’t do drugs kids. You have less time for reading books.
DOES THAT MEAN PEOPLE MIGHT ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO READ MY LAST GASPS?!
TAKE MY MONEY
People probably read more now than ever before. I mean you’re reading right now. People that watch anime are reading subtitles as well.
I developed most of my reading skills from playing JRPGs trying to do speed runs. When I was growing up speed runs were a competition, how fast did you pull your first run on a new JRPG was a big deal. Since those games are heavily text I’d just breeze right through them usually setting the text view to instant. When games started getting voice acting and wouldn’t let you skip forward on text it really annoyed me and probably killed the genre for me. It also destroyed any replayability, because really who wants to sit there and listen to slow voice acting for the 7th time? Heck even the 2nd time probably not.
I loved Reading Rainbow. Of course I read a lot of regular books too. I think i am around the average age of most of us older folk on here. When we were growing up there really weren’t that many options around. Certainly there was no internet. Nobody really had cable. Obviously you couldn’t stream videos or download them, usually you had to get a VHS tape to watch something, but there weren’t even all that many options of what to watch either. Books by far had the most variety and are still the cheapest entertainment you can get.
I actually really want to write a book. I know probably nobody will want to read it, but I guess I’ll link it up on SRK one day. I wonder how a JRPG-like book would be received. I know some fantasy stuff like Angels & Demons and Harry Potter were popular, so I wonder if I did something similar if it would at least have a shot. I do have some ideas.
This shit is officially a go, $1.2 mil son :o
Never heard of Reading Rainbow. It must have died before I was even born. 
You were born in 2007?
Maybe he is part of the Dora the explorer generation.
If the information from Wiki has any validity then I was born in the middle of its lifespan.
Edit: Lmao this dude thought I was a seven year old typing like this!
People need to stop being cynical about this. Literacy is a serious issue right now, especially in the city schools that he’s giving this to for free. Having worked in a smaller city school until just recently, I can tell you first hand it is NOT a good situation. It’s entirely up to the schools to provide these kids with motivation to read right now, they’re getting none of that at home.
No jokes, no trying to be the king of SRK snark on this, just toss your boy some cash and spread the word. This is absolutely a worthy cause.
Jeez 1.2 million in a day. People wanna prove they can go twice as high as that butterfly apparently.
LOL I was more or less joking with that, letting you know that there was no way in hell you were born outside of Reading Rainbow and on SRK.
Reaching their goal in half a day.
Out of all the Kickstarters I’ve seen, this is the most deserving of getting backing. Between that and my grandparents, I had a quickly instilled love of reading growing up.
Levar Burton is for real. Mad props for never giving up on what you believe in.
did you even watch the video…he said it stopped in 2009.
its like people didnt even watch the video…its less a show and more a program and tool for schools to have access to reading materials.
On my last day of college, I procured a copy of a gigantic compilation of Sherlock Holmes stories. My dumbass hasn’t gotten around to reading it yet.
It always astounds when I see how empty bookstores are aside from a big release. I am happy that LeVar met the goal and I really hope this helps kids realize there’s better things than the lastest PewDiePie video to spend your free time with.
That explains is ignorance.
He wanted 1mil and reached that in 11 hours. It’s approaching 2mil now… wow.