I see nothing wrong with burning these books. Most contemporary books are unreadable and poorly written, mirroring the decline in the English language over the past half century.
BURN ALL BOOKS UNDER 50 YEARS OLD!
Let's say you own some junk (of questionable value), which you cannot dispose off. After waiting a while, you decide to burn this junk. So what? Nothing is lost. No big deal. Life goes on. It is not like these hicks in Kansas went and burned the collection of Renaissance paintings in Europe or something.
Yikes. I'll have to go back to buying COBOL books instead of modern technology books.
Stopped in Barnes and Noble today to pick up a couple books for daughter's English class. They have a whole wall of an odd product they call "graphic novels." Turns out, they are comic books bound like pulp paperbacks. Large pictures and childish dialog...If I was reduced to selling this kind of drivel I'd burn it too.