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Book do not burn easily.
As a kid living countryside, there was no garbage pickup in our area. I was in charge of disposal for which we had a 45 gal drum and matches. At one point I had about 50 books to process so I put a few in, tore one up and light it. Those books never burned. To get rid of them I had to tear them apart to let air in between the pages. Comparatively a log has sugars, air pockets and solvents to activate combustion, paper has nothing and is completely dead. It will burn only with massive amounts of air going across like in a huge fire. In this case the books are not at fault, I think the boxes of newsprint are.
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