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Hmmm.
This sounds very curious to me. Im not really a firewood expert per se other than doing some numbers - everyone has been pretty emphatic in telling me that wet wood is a no-no, which is why they work so hard to dry it - many even put some extra wood they are about to burn NEXT to the woodstove for a day or two while its on, so as to get extra dry. I'll check out the link, but my mind is already working on why we WANT so much stuff and the drivers that underlie this behaviour....
There might be a two other reasons for that - the wood helps as thermal mass to keep the area warmer longer, and a wood stove is very dry, and to the extent more water is in the air, the more comfortable it is. (Yes, the amount is truly trivial - but sometimes, we don't notice benefits/disadvantages when looking at what we do.) I specifically try to dry wet clothes when the fire is burning, for just that reason - though the main reason, of course, is that they dry faster.
But the other thing about storing/drying firewood - how cold is it when you bring it in? I try to stack a few days worth of wood in the sun, and bring it in near the stove in the afternoon - wood in the room at 55° F is a lot better than wood at 25° F. The unheated basement is my other burning storage area, a solution for a week of gray and damp days around freezing.