Flaming Hydra launches Kickstarter campaign to reimagine e-book ownership and digital lending

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Flaming Hydra has started a new Kickstarter campaign aimed at rethinking how e-books are owned and lent digitally. The project is framed as a push for the "return of the human internet." The source article provides only limited detail beyond this framing. Further specifics about the campaign's mechanics, funding goals, or timeline are not available in the provided text.

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