LeVar Burton Reads

LeVar Burton played Geordi in StarTrek TNG, which I guess is how many of us know him.<p>But for those of you who don&#x27;t know (I didn&#x27;t until recently) encouraging&#x2F;enabling people to &quot;read&quot; is actually LeVar Burton&#x27;s main gig. He presented Reading Rainbow [1] long before his involvement in Star Trek.<p>Reading Rainbow itself, was somewhat recently rebooted by LeVar: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.readingrainbow.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.readingrainbow.com&#x2F;</a><p>[1] A show to encourage children to read. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Reading_Rainbow" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Reading_Rainbow</a>

I&#x27;m excited about this, Levar has a great voice for podcasting.<p>On a website related note, the art19 website is bad in one big way. Their homepage is very &quot;investor focused&quot; and not listener focused. If they want to sell ads, they need to get people to listen to their shows! I can&#x27;t find a link to other podcasts (googling &quot;art19 shows&quot; finds several). I know they have more, but if they want listeners, they need to have their homepage be a directory or recommendation engine so I can find other shows. The investor pitch needs to be secondary. I&#x27;m sure the people buying ads will appreciate that as well.

The first selection, the short story &quot;Kin&quot; by Bruce McAllister, is one of my favorites of recent years. It was a Hugo finalist story, and in a different life I tried to get a film version of it off the ground. The rights have long since reverted back to Bruce, but hopefully someone someday will pick it up and get it made.

Bless this man. I grew up on Reading Rainbow, and later met him at CES. A wonderful human being.

How many others had the thought &quot;but he&#x27;s blind...&quot;