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message 1: by Fishface (last edited Dec 14, 2019 03:52PM) (new)

Fishface | 3400 comments https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

When I clicked on the Amazon link on this book's page, expecting to find a mistitled edition of The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester, I found that it led to The President and The Madman by Bruce Watson. When I was pulling up those titles to add the links to this narrative box, I also found The President and the Madman by Scott Miller, and the Amazon link on that page also leads to the Bruce Watson book.

Maybe you could flip a coin to see which title and which author?


message 2: by Arenda (new)

Arenda | 26447 comments When there is no ASIN or isbn on the GR book page, the Amazon link will search by title. Search results might be for a completely different book with identical or similar title.

For The President and the Madman on Simon Winchester's page: the user who added that edition doesn't have it on their shelves now, but they do have The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester on their shelves.
I've merged the misspelled title into the valid edition.

For The President and the Madman on Scott Miller's page, based on the page count and publication date, I've corrected the author to Bruce Watson and combined ebook and Kindle edition.


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