>In fact, while the Kickstarter promises to deliver more books to low-income kids, there are already some hints that it’s not totally up to speed with those sam

>In fact, while the Kickstarter promises to deliver more books to low-income kids, there are already some hints that it’s not totally up to speed with those same kids’ digital realities. It’s well-documented fact, for instance, that low-income households are disproportionately more likely to access the Internet by cellphone. And yet Reading Rainbow wants to put its app on desktop computers first — which requires both computer ownership and high-speed Internet access. (Less than half of households earning less than $30,000 a year have high-speed broadband, per Pew.) It looks like the writer of this article may be one of those disadvantaged illiterates. Or at least a technoilliterate. The kickstarter is about getting Reading Rainbow on the web, and thus everywhere; desktop, tablet, phones. I see no mention of any desktop-specific app, or indeed any app except the pre-existing iPad one.