Accidentally uploaded entire photo library - 18,000 photos - to one Book. How do I get them out???

Help! I accidentally uploaded my entire photo library -- 18,000 photos -- to the Book I am working on. Now everything runs slow, and I can't figure out how to get them out quickly. It takes several seconds to just delete one photo. I don't want to delete the entire book, because I already spent a lot of time laying out 30 pages. How do I get rid of all the extra photos from the book?

Four  choices
1 - delete the book and start over
2 - delete the extra photos in the book
3 - resotore your backup from before you did this
4 - leave them in the book and ignore the extras
LN

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