@ the red tape fiasco!
I speak from experience when I say that books don't burn easily. We spent an entire winter once trying to burn a set of encyclopedias (mildew.) No amount of accelerant would speed up the process. It became a neighborhood project that was largely unsuccessful. Eventually, the remains had to be bagged and hauled to the dump.
My personal library has went from a wall of shelves, to a single bookshelf, to a pie safe, and now is contained within a single kitchen sized cabinet. I anticipate it being reduced to a few choice books eventually as I am able to part with them. Times change.