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Even after Reading Rainbow ended its 26-year-long run in 2009, series host LeVar Burton wasn't ready to drop its mission of promoting reading habits and literacy. He brought the series back as an iPad app two years ago, to much acclaim, but Burton still hasn't been satisfied with what it's been able to accomplish. "97 percent of the families in [the United States] have access to the web," Burton tells The Verge by phone. But tablets — where Reading Rainbow now lives — are far more limited: "Only...

LAS VEGAS -- LeVar Burton is no stranger to CES. Although he's best known for his work in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Roots and Reading Rainbow, the actor, director and educator is also a huge tech fan. We caught up with Burton at the 2014 International CES and talked about the newest version of Reading Rainbow. After PBS canceled the series in 2009, Burton relaunched it last June as a tablet app via RRKidz, an educational company he co-founded.

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For a generation now creating advanced things and placed in corridors of power, LeVar Burton was a god-king: both Star Trek's Geordi La Forge, and the guy who taught us to like books on Reading Rainbow. Now, the two Burtons are fused—and it's pretty incredible. LeVar Burton has an app—it's available starting today. Sure. Lots of people have apps. But it's doubtful anyone cares as much about their app as LeVar Burton. I step into an expensive hotel room in Midtown Manhattan, and Burton springs up,...

Today at a press conference in NYC,  LeVar Burton of Reading Rainbow, Star Trek and Roots fame, is announcing that Reading Rainbow will soon arrive on the iPad as a full-blow app….