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In this day and age of mass production and digitization, I'm sure "book burning" might not hold quite the significance (especially to a younger generation) that it would in a different context: say like an extremely limited printing of an obscure author who might have been destined to become an icon, had not two of the five books in circulation been burned 50 years prior. (NOTE: I don't mean to disparage the youth of today in any way; I only mean to point out that the age of near-instantaneous access to any text you can think of is quite young.)
I also have no doubt that occasionally, a book burning could have side-effects that run counter to the intent of the burners.
But a positive thing? That's a stretch by any imagination. Book burnings are always destructive (literally and figuratively) by their very nature.
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