"If you're looking to burn a large pile of books in a headline-grabbing conflagration, you probably won't have time to fan out the pages of each one. But someone who wanted to burn a lot of books could just treat them like firewood. From a combustion perspective, a closed book behaves just like a log. They're both dense collections of cellulose."
Brian Palmer in Slate offers advice as to the best ways to burn books.
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