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Forgive me, but the question sounds a bit silly to me. I download and delete books all the time on/from my reader. I have downloaded and deleted several versions of the bible, because I wasn't happy with the formatting. I have owned a couple of paper versions of the bible and got rid of at least one of them (sold it). Although I feel much worse throwing away a paper book than I do deleting an electronic one, there's no big deal in either action, except if I make a big deal of it by staging a public autodafe and making sure that the people who would care about such things are informed of my act and know that I am doing it precisely because they care. Burning a book is only reprehensible because of the symbol it represents, of hatred and intolerance. In itself it's a wasteful act, nothing more, unless you're burning the last existing copy or one of the last few existing copies.
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