As an engineer, I have always wondered whether cooking a book would make it easier to digest. Technical books in general are pretty dry. Boiling in water is a sure way to add moisture. Not sure that it is worth trying, based on the sloppy mess that occurred when some of my books got wet.
Tongue in Cheek aside, the expense of creating and publishing a hard cover book insured that the information within the book was heavily vetted and edited. Yes they were expensive to buy at the bookstore, but everyone covered the cost of curating and compiling useful information. These days you can obtain information for free from the internet. It is worth every penny that you pay for it. I am not suggesting that there is not useful information available on the internet. What I am saying is that the insignificant cost of distributing information via the internet, has buried the useful information in terabytes of heavily biased opinion.