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Books app has trouble distinguishing between authors with the same name

Books combines results for David Mitchell (English comedian) and David Mitchell (author of cloud atlas etc). Obviously this is the result of some non-reviewed lazy algorithm work. Best one I’ve yet seen: a book/brochure about soil revitalisation and revegetation in Western Australia appears along with Stephen Fry’s oeuvre (a certain Mr Stephen Fry — of Australia, one assumes — is a co-author). The point being: is there some way to correct this? Is there a disambiguation request procedure? Is it somehow editable in the app? Not a major thing but, like most minor things, incredibly irritating and disappointing.

Posted on Oct 24, 2026 12:45 PM

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Books app has trouble distinguishing between authors with the same name

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