Book burning

/book/, I am hosting a small book burning and I have some questions. I've done this once before but the books took more than 12 hours to completely burn because of how dense the are and not a lot of oxygen gets in to burn the books in the center. The audience tends to get bored of the burning after a few hours but the crew has to stick around until all the books are burned out.

Our book burnings are getting very popular recently and this time we have more than 4 times as many books to burn and I don't want to spend two days burning them. So what's the best method to burn masses of books quickly? I have 14 standard sized moving boxes full of books to burn mostly paperbacks but some hardcovers too. Last time we just had people throw books onto the pile and added gas. Would it be more efficient to stack them in some sort of structure?

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Well it's for a church but I thought if I mentioned that in the first post, no one would help me. People here aren't very supportive of church activities. Mostly we're burning things like Harry Potter and Richard Dawkins books so it's not like we're burning encyclopedias or anything useful. Just stuff that the church condemns.

It's mostly just symbolic because obviously there are millions of identical copies in print. It's not like we're burning the only copies or the Library of Alexandria where unique scrolls were destroyed forever. This is just so people can come and denounce witchcraft and burn their copy of Harry Potter to show that they're putting it behind them and repenting.