Sure they can. People give each other books all the time 
I have a collection of useless ones that have been given to me (If you really want one.
A book is not necessarily the most useful object for making a fire... I'd start with a source of flame, like a lighter, or a match, or flint.
I have a collection of useless ones that have been given to me (If you really want one.A book is not necessarily the most useful object for making a fire... I'd start with a source of flame, like a lighter, or a match, or flint.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
