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I noticed this quite awhile ago, but when trying to read a book that has a number in the title (for example, a book - "Chanties of the Sea, Volume two" by Kelvan), you are never able to read the chapter that shares the number, (look two will return just looking at the book). I have seen this with a number of the amazing in game books.

Confirmed:
Perhaps the easiest solution is to just rename the items, per other volumes of this work:

This happens with
A book - "Chanties of the Sea, Volume two" by Kelvan
but not with
A book - "Chanties of the Sea, Volume three" by Kevlan

This is because the keywords are unique for the latter (though they don't match the long name):

Index object description keywords: 'book kelvan Chanties Sea Chanties of the Sea, Volume two one two three four five six seven eight'

versus

Index object description keywords: 'book Kelvan Chanties Sea Volume third one two three four five'

Two possible solutions for the general case:

• Use numerals for the chapters (1, 2, 3) rather than words
• Avoid using chapter number names (one, two, three) in book titles

I like the former, and wrote my (one, now defunct) book to accept either format for chapter identification:

Index object description keywords: 'book waterdeep city watch training manual raona corbin 1 one introduction intro 2 two before 3 three 4 four 5 five 6 six 7 seven commencing 8 eight 9 nine 10 ten 11 eleven 12 twelve 13 thirteen 14 fourteen 15 fifteen 16 sixteen 17 seventeen 18 eighteen 19 nineteen 20 twenty 21 twenty-one twentyone 22 twenty-two twentytwo 23 twenty-three twentythree 24 twenty-four twentyfour 25 twenty-five twentyfive'

So, in short, modifying book objects with this problem is the only real fix; I think the code is doing the best it can under the circumstances.