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Book burning is, in my opinion, morally reprehensible. No matter how much you hate a book, you should never burn it. I would never sanction burning books, not even books I despise completely that have no real value (like Twilight). For one thing (with a few exceptions, like Twilight), a book is very much like a work of art, and it represents something more than what you or I as a reader might take away from it, especially to the author. Not to mention to sort of slippery slope starting such things entail. If you start out burning Twilight books or other trash, it may seem meaningless, but, as mentioned before you know it, people are burning Shakespeare.

This applies to both private book burning and government/censorship/whatever book burning. In terms of private burning, there is less risk of it getting out of hand, and it isn't illegal, but still immoral.

I won't discuss censorship in detail, because it is perverse, totalitarian, and wrong in every way. The parent has the right to dictate what their children sees and reads, and if they let them watch porn or read material intended to encourage violence and lawlessness, then the fault is with the parent, not the material.